8. Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation - Square Circles Publishing

SOURCE 8: THE MIND AT MISCHIEF
[Contrast 15:12.]
[See 9:2.4, 9:7.3-4 and 9:8.2.]
8:5.8 Generally speaking, I think we
have three great groupings of the
neuroses, and they are:
8:5.9 1. The psychic group—The
neuroses that are definitely intellectual.
They are based largely on suggested
fears, and embrace the dreads, phobias,
inferiority complex, etc.—the chronic
worries as distinguished from the anxiety
states. This group also includes our
hypochondriacs and others who
chronically spy upon themselves.
8:5.10 2. The emotional group—The
group definitely exhibiting the anxiety
state. This includes those patients in
whom complex suppression is
manifesting itself in physical nervous
symptoms, such as tremors, weakness,
nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and the like.
This group finds its most striking
expression in those symptoms which are
on the borderline of hysteria—what we
might call the physical group of the
neurotic manifestations. Here are also to
be found all cases of nervous tension,
mental conflicts, or brain fag, together
with the anxiety neuroses or what is
sometimes called psychasthenia. There
may be more or less emotional depression
in this group, but it is usually of a
periodic nature, and fatigue is often the
prominent feature, causing these patients
to be regarded as victims of nervous
exhaustion or so-called neurasthenia.
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