A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

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

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

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.

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

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

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