ABSTRACT
WE USE the term "nenrotic" quite freely today without always having, however, a clear conception of what it denotes. Often it is hardly more than a slightly highbrow way of expressing disapproval: one who formerly would have been content to say lazy, sensitive, demanding or suspicious, is now likely to Bay instead "neurotic. ' , Yet we do have something in mind when we nse the term, and without being quite aware of it we apply certain criteria to determine its choice.
