Sigmund Freud Neurosis Quotations

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

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

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.