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

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

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

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.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

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

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.