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.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

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.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.