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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, e

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Happiness
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Sigmund Freud
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag

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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan

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