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It is highly instructive to consider, e.g., the significance of any hysterical phobia or of an agoraphobia. Suppose a neurotic incapable of crossing the street alone, which we would justly call a "symptom." We attempt to remove this symptom by urging him to the action which he deems himself incapable of.
The sense of shame returned periodically; but on each renewal of the feeling he salved his conscience more and more successfully with the assurance that to her, as to himself, the Mystics were in reality nothing but the products of a neurotic age mere hysterical dabblers in the truths of the universe.
He paced the floor telling himself it was a stupid, neurotic apprehension that filled his mind, that the great Connemorra Lines could not be involved in any nefarious acts involving five thousand people or even one person. They couldn't afford such risk. He couldn't shake it. He was certain that, no matter what the cost, he was not going to board that black ship. He looked about the stateroom.
In our neurotic age we are the slaves of our nerves; they are our masters and do as they like with us. Civilisation has done us a bad turn in that way. . . ."
Cochrane winced. A neurotic type if there ever was one! "Jed," said Holden heartily, "here's Mr. Dabney. Mr. Dabney, Jed Cochrane is here as a specialist in public-relations set-ups. He'll take charge of this affair. Your father-in-law sent him up here to see that you are done justice to!" Dabney seemed to think earnestly before he spoke. "It is not for myself," he explained in an anxious tone.
The mate selected upon the basis of these unconscious motives is very likely to bequeath a neurotic constitution or an otherwise impaired physical organism to the offspring of the union, since those possibilities were not taken into consideration in making the choice.
The tears poured from my eyes at first, but the lump in my throat went away, and when Nigel came back I actually did not feel frightened, though he looked at me and sneered quietly." "Did he say anything afterwards?" "He laughed a little cold laugh and said, 'I see you have been seeking the consolation of religion. Neurotic women like confessors.
In neither ward of the city does there seem to be the slightest restraint upon the use of musical instruments. It is no place for neurotic people. The keepers wear a uniform not unlike that of railway guards and porters.
He is extremely neurotic and has developed into a hypochondriac, the whole condition probably brought about by the shock and sorrow resultant on the death of his wife, leading to years of sad broodings and to overmuch of his own company and thoughts. Indeed, young Jarnock told me that his father would sometimes pray for hours together, alone in the Chapel."
She was gazing at him with a candid, spontaneous admiration infinitely more human and infinitely more irresistible than the neurotic adoration that was daily lavished on him. With an odd, inexplicable sense of guilt, he rose quickly from his seat. "Do not forget do not allow yourself to forget that this is my teaching," he said. "That you have each within yourselves the thing you demand in me.
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