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

- Karl Abraham

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…

- Karl Abraham

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…

- Karl Abraham

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

- Karl Abraham

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

- Karl Abraham

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.

- Karl Abraham

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

- Karl Abraham

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

- Karl Abraham

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

- Karl Abraham