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neurosis
/n(j)ʊˈɹoʊ̯.sɪs/
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What does neurosis mean?
noun
- (dated) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear differing from normal measures by its intensity, and resulting from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
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The fruits of this conflict would be neurosis and hysteria on the one hand; or concealed gratification of suppressed desires on the other, with a resultant hypocrisy and cant.
Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.
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Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence--but without its being possible to determine with certainty which is cause and which is effect, or IF any relation at all of cause and effect exists there.
We have quite enough of these zoological brutalities: man, the son of the Ape; duty, a foolish prejudice; conscience, a lure for the simple; genius, neurosis; patriotism, jingo heroics; the soul, a product of protoplasmic energies; God, a puerile myth.