ABSTRACT
The chief anxieties in neurosis belong to forward movement towards a genital and away from an alimentary type of instinct. Neurosis proper denotes unconscious conflict. It relates to the instinctual life of the child. Its main point of origin is at the toddler stage, before the age generally accepted for education at a school. At the root of neurosis is anxiety, especially that arising out of the violent conflicts in the unconscious fantasy, and in the child’s personal inner reality. There is a rich literature for those who wish to make a further examination of neurosis, and plenty of neurosis exists for clinical study. Neurotic illness takes its origin in the very severe anxiety that results from the instinctual drives of the child. Unconscious conflicts of love and hate, of heterosexual and homosexual trends, lead to the organization of patterns of defence, and it is these patterns of defence that constitute organized neurosis.
