ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the case of a man who in the ordinary commercial world passed amongst all his friends and acquaintances as normal and successful. Man, neurotic man, who has opposed his instinct-pressure, is in this unfortunate position. Thus he may be the victim of two sources of discomfort, tension and anxiety. The increasing instinct-pressure within him, finding its outlet or its translation into physiological activities blocked, would be a source of discomfort analogous to the increasing tension within the cell membrane of the growing, but not-dividing, amoeba. Analysis of the mind enlarges his ego, or reality principle, at the expense of these irrational warring elements. The thesis readily accepted by the anxiety-ridden person’s ego, is ineffective in removing his anxiety-ridden resistance to his primary urges. It would appear that there is some buried force inaccessible to his reason which is unconsciously creating the condition of intra-psychic conflict or war within his mind.
