Quote by Sigmund Freud
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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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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

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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 cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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