ABSTRACT
At the time when the term neurosis has disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, the author traces the psychiatric origin of this concept, its reprise and development in psychoanalysis during three-quarters of the twentieth century and then its decline at the level both of its diagnostic utilisation and its theoretical study. She links this evolution to the disappearance of the period of latency in the new generations in the West, a disappearance that calls into question the development in two phases of infantile sexuality and thus its reprise in the transference neurosis. She puts forward contemporary solutions for taking into account the components of this concept of neurosis.
