neurosis, n.Definitions

Neurosis is a conflict between between ego and super-ego.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neurosis 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.