单词 | psychoneurosis |
释义 | psychoneurosisn. Psychology. Neurosis, esp. as attributed in psychoanalytic theory to repressed unconscious conflict or fantasy (as distinguished from an ‘actual’ neurosis, attributed by Freud to anxiety caused by sexual frustration); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychoneurosis psychoneurosis1879 neuropsychosis1890 1879 T. S. Clouston in Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1880) 25 i. 15 The insane temperament or neurosis insana, or, to keep up uniformity of classification, Psychoneurosis. 1904 W. James in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1903–4 18 32 The parasitic ideas of psycho-neurosis, and the fictitious personations of planchette-writing and mediumship. 1913 E. Jones Papers on Psycho-anal. v. 129 We next come to the psychoneuroses proper... The symptoms result from the activity of certain unconscious mental processes..which the patient is unable spontaneously to recall to his memory. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. xxi. 253 There always remains as a common feature in the ætiology both of the psychoneuroses and the psychoses the factor of frustration. 1972 M. Zax & E. L. Cowen Abnormal Psychol. viii. 231 The one feature common to all forms of psychoneurosis is the presence of anxiety. 2002 J. B. Miner Organizational Behavior ii. 34 This obsessive thinking is widespread and has much in common with the preoccupations found in psychoneurosis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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