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Hypochondria (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠anxious expectation turned on one's own body, needing only some distressing sensation to fasten on.

Hypochondria (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be obsessional neurosis in disguise: self-reproach turned into anxiety about one's health, one's standing or one's soul.

Hypochondria (n.) lavishes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠libido on a body part that does not exist for consciousness before that investment — the part becomes knowable only by being invested.

Hypochondria (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be right: there are organic changes in it too — an organ grown erotogenic, tender and changed like a genital in excitement, yet not diseased.

Hypochondria (n.) stands ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to paranoia as anxiety neurosis stands to hysteria, Freud suggests; no theory of paranoia is trustworthy that does not cover it.