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is an individual religiosity just as religion is a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity... to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. Freud

is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. Carl Jung

is often caused by people blinding themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. Carl Jung

is, to a certain degree, of inestimable value as a drive.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. Freud

is a conflict between between ego and super-ego.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world. Freud

is, at bottom, always to be found in the scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. Erich Fromm

is typically an individual thing, but the true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions because, by accepting the universal neurosis, he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions... by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. Freud

is capable of counterfeiting any illness perfectly, as it has an absolute genius for malingering.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

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