ABSTRACT
THE NEUROTIC need for affection often takes the form of a sexual infatuation or an insatiable hunger for sexual gratification. In view of this fact we have to raise the question whether the whole phenomenon of the neurotic need for affection is prompted by dissatisfaction in sexual life, whether all this longing for affection, for contact, for appreciation, for support is motivated not 80 much by a need for reassurance as by dissatisfied libido.
