The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts..

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work..

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual..

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will ea….

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive plea….

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient a….

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anx….

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of th….

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis..

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly ab….

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias..

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility..