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“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
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“But the cinephile is 鈥� a neurotic! (That鈥檚 not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it鈥檚 because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, 鈥淲hen you love life, you go to the movies,鈥� it鈥檚 false! It鈥檚 exactly the opposite: when you don鈥檛 love life, or when life doesn鈥檛 give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.”
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“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”
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“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?鈥�
鈥淣eurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.”
― Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
鈥淣eurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.”
― Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.”
― The Guermantes Way
― The Guermantes Way

“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual鈥檚 own intellectual operations, from the belief in the 鈥榦mnipotence of thoughts鈥�, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.”
― New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
― New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. We enjoy fine music, beautiful pictures, a thousand exquisite things, but we do not know what they cost those who wrought them in sleeplessness, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthma, epilepsy a terror of death which is worse than any of these, and which you perhaps have felt...
Heaven only knows what the disease was of which you thought you had detected the symptoms. And you were not mistaken; they were there. Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. It will produce life-like imitations of the dilatations of dyspepsia, the sicknesses of pregnancy, the broken rhythm of the cardiac, the feverishness of the consumptive. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor how should it fail to deceive the patient? No, no; you mustn鈥檛 think I鈥檓 making fun of your sufferings. I should not undertake to heal them unless I understood them thoroughly. And, well, they say there鈥檚 no good confession unless it鈥檚 mutual. I have told you that without nervous trouble there can be no great artist. What is more,"..."there can be no great scientist either. I will go further, and say that, unless he himself is subject to nervous trouble, he is not, I won鈥檛 say a good doctor, but I do say the right doctor to treat nervous troubles. In nervous pathology a doctor who doesn鈥檛 say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured, just as a critic is a poet who has stopped writing verse and a policeman a burglar who has retired from practice.”
― The Guermantes Way
Heaven only knows what the disease was of which you thought you had detected the symptoms. And you were not mistaken; they were there. Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. It will produce life-like imitations of the dilatations of dyspepsia, the sicknesses of pregnancy, the broken rhythm of the cardiac, the feverishness of the consumptive. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor how should it fail to deceive the patient? No, no; you mustn鈥檛 think I鈥檓 making fun of your sufferings. I should not undertake to heal them unless I understood them thoroughly. And, well, they say there鈥檚 no good confession unless it鈥檚 mutual. I have told you that without nervous trouble there can be no great artist. What is more,"..."there can be no great scientist either. I will go further, and say that, unless he himself is subject to nervous trouble, he is not, I won鈥檛 say a good doctor, but I do say the right doctor to treat nervous troubles. In nervous pathology a doctor who doesn鈥檛 say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured, just as a critic is a poet who has stopped writing verse and a policeman a burglar who has retired from practice.”
― The Guermantes Way
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