#neurosis

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#know #neurosis #only #the only thing #thing

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#importance #nervous-breakdowns #neurosis #perspective #self-perception

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

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

— Sigmund Freud

#certain degree #degree #drive #especially #inestimable

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ↗

— Anatole France

#against #believers #certain #constructing #degree

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ↗

— Carl Jung

#legitimate #neurosis #substitute #suffering

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#history #life #my life #neurosis #story

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#carries #else #end #every #form

Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through – I mean complex for someone with the soft brain of a tomato merchant; for me the premises are obvious and the conclusions dire and inescapable – threatened to crush me, and I was ultimately forced to abandon the whole undertaking. By way of recovery, I spent the rest of the summer immersed in a Freudian meditation on some choice tabloids. The mysterious lives of celebrities make for challenging induction. The reasoning process involves navigating many gaps in our knowledge of them. What is certain is that under the iceberg of glitz and glamor lie neurotic, depraved individuals with bizarre habits and hobbies, people who think they’re above the law. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #history #law #neurosis #funny

National isolation breeds national neurosis. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#isolation #national #neurosis