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Psychology Terms - Actual neurosis
In psychoanalysis, a type of neurosis originating not from infantile conflicts but from current circumstances, with symptoms arising directly from insufficient or absent sexual fulfillment, rather than manifesting as symbolic expressions. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) introduced the concept in 1898 in an article titled ‘Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses’ (Standard Edition, III, pp. 263–85, at p. 279), where he initially identified anxiety neurosis (generalized anxiety disorder) and neurasthenia as the primary neuroses, subsequently including hypochondria.
In psychoanalysis, a type of neurosis originating not from infantile conflicts but from current circumstances, with symptoms arising directly from insufficient or absent sexual fulfillment, rather than manifesting as symbolic expressions. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) introduced the concept in 1898 in an article titled ‘Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses’ (Standard Edition, III, pp. 263–85, at p. 279), where he initially identified anxiety neurosis (generalized anxiety disorder) and neurasthenia as the primary neuroses, subsequently including hypochondria.
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