neurosis

I keep coming back to psychoanalyst Karen Horney’s 1950 discussion of neurosis and the professions—how they can attract exactly the wrong people, masquerading ideals they don’t possess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

I've just worked on developing better skills to keep myself from talking myself into a place of neurosis.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

A victory to flush out any neurosis and compound the belief in their plan.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024

And if we cannot find a referent for the normal and the good, how can we possibly come back from our national neurosis?

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2024

He had lived for almost twenty years without trauma, tension, hate, or neurosis, which was proof to Yossarian of just how crazy he really was.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Films are a chance to work out these nagging, existential neuroses that live in the back of the mind, the type that overwhelm to the point of panic if thought about for too long.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

That’s not exactly unconventional for one of his movies, but more than any of his other features, this film is laced with Aster’s neuroses.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

The Ratliffs, with their North Carolina money and the neuroses to which they generally remain oblivious, are also deeply human.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

What the press—and seemingly everyone else—failed to understand was that it was Bobby’s shrewdness in protecting his financial interests, rather than temper tantrums or neuroses, that was making him hesitate.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady