ABSTRACT
As the first group of the neuroses Freud distinguishes that nervous condition in which any actual irregularity in the physiology of the sexual function acts as the cause of disease without the assistance of psychological factors. Two diseased conditions belong to this group to which Freud gives the name of ‘actual-neuroses’, but which in contrast to the psycho-neuroses might also be called physioneuroses. Virginal anxiety is one of the best known forms of anxiety-neurosis described by Freud. It arises from the fact that the unprepared psyche cannot associate itself with the libido on the occasion of the first sexual experiences. The psycho-analysis of psycho-neurotics led Freud to the significant and extraordinary conclusion that the repressed complexes lying at the root of the symptoms are always of a sexual character; or, to speak more accurately, that unconscious sexual factors are never absent, nay, usually play the leading part in cases of psycho-neuroses.
