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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]].

...e. Later Freud argued that the conflict between the ego and the id defines neurosis, while that between the ego and reality characterizes psychosis (1924b [192 ...by bit, just like a foreign army, by extending its surveillance beyond the phobic object to any fantasmatic object that can resonate with it. The defensive r

...and the clinical psychologist who is trying to understand the dynamics of phobic behavior leading to a total inability to work. In a similar vein, apart fro the [[Real]], the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Imaginary]]. While in neurosis these three rings

...scene in which she represented partners of both sexes (1908a). Hysterical neurosis and hysterical relationships involve identification, constant repression, a ...Anxiety States and their Treatment; Neurosis; Phobias in children; Phobic neurosis; Proton-pseudos; Psychoanalytical nosography; Psychogenic blindness; Psycho

The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially 'incurable'. ...elopment. The aim of psychoanalysis is to uncover the hidden causes of the neurosis in order to relieve the patient of his or her conflicts, so dissolving the

The closest to such a position is the [[neurosis|neurotic]] [[structure]], but even here the subject still defends himself a ...played a prominent role in the "reconstruction" of his patient's infantile neurosis. The Wolf Man sought through identification to assume the passive position