Anxiety (n.) is a sickness of the human spirit rather than of the psyche alone.
Anxiety (n.) is the infinite which everyone is in touch with.
Anxiety (n.) is the reality of freedom as possibility anterior to possibility.
Anxiety (n.) is the only emotion that does not deceive.
Anxiety neurosis (n.) is hysteria's bodily twin: the same mechanism, but displacing a physical excitement where hysteria displaces a mental one.
Anxiety neurosis (n.) is to the anxiety attack what climate is to weather: a chronic response to a source of danger inside rather than outside.
Anxiety neurosis (n.) comes, Freud first argued, from sexual tension piling up with no satisfaction: abstinence, or arousal left unfinished.
Anxiety neurosis (n.) has a single common cause, Freud first thought: desire produced and not adequately discharged.
The Choice of neurosis (n.) is not decided by heredity; a specific cause decides which disorder a predisposed person gets.
The Choice of neurosis (n.) asks why one person falls ill of this neurosis and no other; Freud answered: dispositions, not experiences.
The Choice of neurosis (n.) is made in childhood: the form an illness takes depends on where in development the inhibition struck.
The Choice of neurosis (n.) is the riddle of the neurotic family: one child gets hysteria, one compulsions, one psychosis, and one nothing at all.
Compulsion neurosis (n.) has the meticulous look of a moral problem but is brimful of inhuman beastliness — its ceremonies counteract the evil hovering in the background.
Compulsion neurosis (n.) can come from complexes kept in sealed compartments — like the intellectual who alternated between the loftiest transcendental idealism and the most squalid suburban brothels without admitting any conflict.
Compulsion neurosis (n.) is the ritual that steals the hour it claims to protect.
Compulsion neurosis (n.) is a mental illness whose symptoms are either prohibitions and atonements (e.g., washing one's hands over and over) or symbolic substitute gratifications.