Neurosis
Psychoanalysis
For the general public, the neurotic is one who has problems, turmoil and difficult relationships. This is somehow a diagnosis of exclusion of madness but which connotes the existence of psychic suffering.
This definition is so precise that it is taken either in the narrow sense (neurotics are sick from those who are healthy and normal), or on the contrary, in a broad sense (we are all neurotic and they joined Dr. Knock).
In medical circles, neurosis is considered from another point of view which is often little more clear: the neurosis is a disease that manifests as hysterical, obsessive and phobic. Curiously, psychoanalysis did not appear to contradict this opinion since it uses the same terms. Now obviously this symptomatic triad, especially when it's showy, always returns and not far to neurosis and "neurotic" abandonniques, masochistic or with profound character disorders are also the least neurotic neurotic.
That is to say how we must abandon the medical conception of a disease, following many authors consider neurosis as a psychic structure.
J.P. Chartier
