ABSTRACT
A common symptom which is often due to inhibition is chronic fatigue. Here again it may not always be easy to decide whether someone is suffering from neurotic fatigue or is genuinely tired, and it may only be psychotherapy, or some spontaneous emotional crisis, which enables a person to discover that his fatigue was due to his excessive expenditure of energy maintaining his internal status quo. Society also provides neurosis a certain lee-way by conspiring not to notice or take seriously various phenomena which psychotherapists regard as indicative of conflict and which they use daily in their work with patients. These phenomena include dreams, the slips of the tongue and other faulty actions which Freud described in his The Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life.
