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Jaundiced hypochondriacs and neurotic wrecks shiver in California winter boarding-houses, torment themselves with ennui at the country ranches, poison themselves with "nerve foods," and perhaps finally survive to write the sad and squalid "truth about California." Doubtless it is all inexpressibly tedious to them; subjective woe is always hard to bear but it is not California.
"Was your husband a man of neurotic tendency, as far as you could judge?" "Oh, I couldn't say when it began," she answered, in a voice that was soft and musical and under perfect control. "The doctor would know that better. No, he was not neurotic, I think." "Did you ever see Mr. Phelps take any drugs not habitually, but just before this sleep came on?"
Energetic, useful, stirring, active, never complaining, always ready to make the best of the world as they find it, and help others to do the same; always regarding it as the preparatory school or training-college for a state of being infinitely greater, nobler, and more glorious than anything the merely mundane imagination can conceive you can realise how infinitely to the nuns' advantage is the contrast between them and the laywomen of Society, peevish, hysterical, neurotic, sensual, and bored.
"I have taken a room on the third floor, No. 17. What is your number?" "Oh, I aspire a good bit," said Florence, with the ghost of a smile; "the number of my room is 32." "May I come and see you?" "No, thank you." "What a rude girl! You certainly are fearfully neurotic. Ah! here comes no, it's not my dinner, it is yours." The soup Florence had ordered was placed before her.
Even the half-mad cranks whose absurd consciences prevent them from barring the way to the devil seemed to me to be turning into men under the prevailing influence. I saw a batch of them, neurotic and largely be-spectacled, but working with a will by the roadside. They will volunteer for the trenches yet.
It is a useful piece of self-analysis, and has, I fancy, a steadying effect upon the character. Frankly, I must confess that my own needs what stiffening I can give it. I fear that, after all, much of my neurotic temperament survives, and that I am far from that cool, calm precision which characterizes Murdoch or Pratt-Haldane.
Though neurotic theories had not been sufficiently elaborated for me to ascribe my state to the most refined of modern ills nervous prostration I was aware, as I dragged over the prairie with the horse at the end of a trailing bridle rein, that something was seriously out of tune.
Many ministers who became his pupils treated like him with skillful combination of religion and hypnoid influences the spasms, catalepsies, neurasthenias, paralysis, and deafness, of neurotic patients. There is no need to follow in detail the frequent similar occurrences between Gassner's time and our own. We all know where we are to-day.
In a little essay on "The Anxiety Neurosis," I maintained that neurotic fear has its origin in the sexual life, and corresponds to a libido which has been turned away from its object and has not succeeded in being applied.
Sally could not put her perception into coherent terms; but she was assured of the fact. Gaga would want too much, and that not in an adorably masterful way, but with exacting and pertinacious excitement bred from his weakness and neurotic avidity. The domination of the weak man would be a tyranny, as it always is. Sally thought: "He'll be a nuisance.
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