The neurotic constitution; outlines of a comparative individualistic psychology and psychotherapy

Trans. by Bernard Glueck and John E. Lind.

THEORETICAL PART. The origin and development of the feeling of inferiority and the consequences thereof. Psychic compensation and its synthesis. The accentuated fiction as the guiding idea in the neurosis. PRACTICAL PART. Avarice, suspiciousness, envy, cruelty, the derogatory critique of the neurotic, neurotic apperception, senile neuroses, changes in the form and intensity of the fiction. Somatic jargon (organ-jargon). The neurotic extension of limits through asceticism, love, desire to travel, crime. Simulation and neurosis. Feeling of inferiority of the female sex. Purpose of an ideal. Doubt as an expression of psychic hermaphroditism. Masturbation and neurosis. The incest-complex as a symbol of craving for dominancy. The nature of the delirium. (Delirium used in the sense of the French une Delire).. Neurotic principles: sympathy, coquetry, narcissism, psychic hermaphroditism, hallucinatory security, virtue, conscience, pedantry, fanatic attachment to truth.. The derogatory tendency to disparage others; obstinacy and wildness; the sexual relations of neurotics as a means of comparison; symbolic emasculation; feeling of being belittled; equality to man as a life-plan; simulation and neurosis; substitute for masculinity; impatience; discontent; inaccessibility. Cruelty. Conscience. Perversion and neurosis.. The antithesis above-beneath, choice of a profession, somnambulism, antithesis in thought, elevation of the personality through the disparagement of others, jealousy, neurotic auxiliaries, authoritativeness, thinking in antithesis and the masculine protest, dilatory attitute and marriage, the tendency upward as a symbol of life, compulsion to masturbation, the neurotic striving for knowledge.. Punctuality, the will to be first, homosexuality and perversion as a symbol, modesty and exhibitionism, constancy and inconstancy, jealousy.. Fear of the partner; the ideal in the neurosis; insomnia and compulsion to sleep; neurotic comparison of man and woman; forms of the fear of the wife.. Self-reproaches; self-torture, contrition and asceticism, flagellation, neuroses in children; suicide and suicidal ideas.. The neurotic's esprit de famille, refractoriness and obedience, silence and loquaciousness, the tendency to contrariness.. Conclusion..

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