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This 4 page paper examines neurosis according to Freud, as well as his concept of psychoanalysis. Furthermore, this paper explores the difference between neurosis and psychosis. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of psychology, and most often served to define it. Freud was dedicated to figuring out the reasons behind hysteria and its symptoms, and as a result developed his know-famous
method called psychoanalysis. Freud first used this work in 1896, in his paper that was called "The Aetiology of Hysteria"
(Sigmund Freud, n.d.). It was just a couple of years later that Freud defined neurosis (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). He asserted that there were two kinds of neurosis:
Actual Neurosis and Psychoneurosis (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). Actual Neurosis is that which he described as "the physiological consequences of present disturbances in sexual functioning" (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). As
Freud further explored this notion, he came to define two specific kinds of Actual Neurosis: first, was neurasthenia, which is the result of sexual excess, and second was anxiety
neurosis, which was the result of unrelieved sexual stimulation (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). As far as Psychoneurosis, Freud defined this as
neurosis being due to psychological conflicts and past events (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). Essentially, the symptoms of psychoneurosis are the "symbolic expression of infantile conflicts, where the Ego defends itself
from disagreeable representations from the sexual sphere" (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). In terms of how psychosis differs from neurosis, Freud was
specific in this regard (Sigmund Freud, n.d.). Freud said that psychosis was the inclusion of hallucinatory confusion, paranoia and hysterical psychosis (which he distinguishes from hysterical neurosis (Sigmund Freud,
n.d.). Conversely, neurosis is essentially an internal, subconscious struggle that we all battle to one degree or another in an effort to "win" some imaginary power struggle over the
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