Neurose
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German
Pronunciation
Noun
Neurose f (genitive Neurose, plural Neurosen)
- neurosis
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 1:
- Die dämonologische Theorie jener dunkeln Zeiten hat gegen alle somatischen Auffassungen der „exakten“ Wissenschaftsperiode recht behalten. Die Besessenheiten entsprechen unseren Neurosen, zu deren Erklärung wir wieder psychische Mächte heranziehen.
- The demonological theory of those dark times was proved correct against all somatic concepts of the period of „exact“ scienes. The possessions correspond to our neuroses, for whose explanation again we call upon the powers of the psyche.
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 1:
Declension
Declension of Neurose
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Further reading
- “Neurose” in Duden online