PERSONALITY CHANGES AND UPHEAVALS ARISING OUT OF THE SENSE OF PERSONAL FAILURE
Abstract
The symptoms of a neurosis are not merely the result of past causes. . . . . They are also attempts at a new synthesis of life. . . . . I have seen more than one man who owed his entire usefulness and justification for existence to a neurosis which put an end to all the stupidities which were dominating his life and forced him into an existence which developed the truly valuable qualities which would have been choked out if the neurosis with its iron talons had not taken the fellow and plunked him down in the place where he belonged. There are men who have in their unconscious the true meaning of their lives and in the conscious that which is for them error and seduction. With others it is just the reverse. In the one case the neurosis means a thoroughgoing reduction or regression, in the other not at all.
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