Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
Karl AbrahamEven in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Karl AbrahamPsychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl AbrahamThe myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.
Karl Abraham