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"[[Neurosis]]" is originally a [[psychiatric]] term which came to denote, in the eighte ...Modern [[psychoanalysis]] describes [[patients]] presenting obsessional, [[phobic]] or [[hysterical]] symptoms as neurotic.

...suffer from a phobia [[experience]] [[Anxiety]] if they [[encounter]] the phobic object or are placed in the feared situation, and develop 'avoidance strate ...er, as Freud does, Lacan argues that the fundamental characteristic of the phobic object is that it does not simply [[represent]] one person but represents d

* [[Narcissistic neurosis]] * [[Phobic neurosis]]

Actual [[neurosis]]/defense neurosis Character neurosis

...of impulsive [[acts]] and that are often integrated into [[obsessional]] [[neurosis]]. Similar to these are phobias of animals, which are very frequent in [[ch ...phobic behaviors can be likened to the [[rituals]] seen with [[obsessional neurosis]] (mixed, so-called phobo-obsessional forms).

...eanings]] while sometimes retaining the same form: [[projection]] in the [[phobic]] [[subject]] is not the same as in the delusional subject. Also, [[symptom

...a [[castration complex]]. Castration can mean more than mutilation. The [[phobic]] object was horses. ...dy of [[castration anxiety]] and the [[Oedipus]] complex by Freud. Hans' [[neurosis]] took the shape of a crippling [[phobia]] of horses (''[[Hippophobia]]'').

...dary symptoms might arise also as defenses against the primary ones); in [[phobic]] avoidances; and so on. ...language"). This view did not hold [[good]], however, beyond the sphere of neurosis proper: in the "actual neuroses," the [[manifest]] symptoms had no [[psychi

...en actual and [[infantile sexuality]] in the causation of the two kinds of neurosis entailed correspondingly different therapeutic approaches, namely prophylax ...incomplete [[satisfaction]]" (1898a, p. 268). The [[mechanism]] of actual neurosis was essentially linked to a disjunction between the somatic sexual [[excita

...[[partial]] [[dissolution]] of the [[neurotic]] conflicts from which the [[phobic]] [[symptom]] originated. This first "[[Child Analysis|child analysis]]" wa ...rd off an even greater anxiety, that of castration. The development of the phobic symptom fulfilled the function of helping to maintain Little Hans's psychic

...o be considered the essential first line of defense of the obsessive (or [[phobic]]) [[subject]]. ...mechanism of [[obsessional]] [[neurosis]]. Freud saw in the [[obsessional neurosis]] a [[separation]] of representation ([[image]], [[thought]], [[memory]]) f

..., the emergence of free anxiety was [[displaced]] and projected onto the [[phobic]] [[object]], in this [[case]] an enclosed [[space]]. See also: Phobic [[neurosis]]; [[Phobias in children]].