Literary notes about Neurotic (AI summary)
The term "neurotic" is employed in literature both as a clinical descriptor rooted in psychoanalytic theory and as a vivid character trait denoting instability or heightened emotional response. In psychoanalytic discourse, it describes complex, often unconscious conflicts—ranging from neurotic narcissism to manifestations of repressed desires—that shape an individual's behavior and internal experience ([1], [2], [3]). Meanwhile, in literary narratives the adjective is frequently used to characterize individuals whose actions and temperaments are marked by anxiety and erratic impulses, sometimes employed with a touch of irony or humor to underscore modern life's contradictory pressures ([4], [5], [6]).Overall, the word serves as a bridge between clinical analysis and fictional portrayals, revealing both the depth of human psychology and the cultural fascination with the incongruities of the anxious mind ([7], [8], [9]).
- We could say far more about regression of libido if we took into consideration another group of neuroses: neurotic narcism.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - We have stated that the neurotic symptoms are substitutions for sexual
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - We turn to the origin of fear in the child, and to the source of neurotic fear which attaches itself to phobias.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - In our neurotic age we are the slaves of our nerves; they are our masters and do as they like with us.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Most likely it’s some neurotic girl, or perhaps a widow . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - I was a little impatient with her; I had not suspected that she was so neurotic a woman.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - When, however, we undertake psychoanalytic treatment with a neurotic patient we proceed differently.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Oh, no wonder she became a neurotic invalid, shut up from week's end to week's end with a dyspeptic, irritable scholar in an old dressing-gown."
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey - The Pirate, Wade, was a brilliant but neurotic chemist who had discovered, among other things, the secret of invisibility.
— from Islands of Space by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)
