| 单词 | actual neurosis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasactual neurosis actual neurosis n. [after German Aktualneurose (Freud 1898, in Wiener klinische Rundschau 13 Feb. 103/2)] Psychology (now chiefly historical) (Freud's term for) a neurosis attributed to sexual frustration in the present (due to abstinence, impotence, etc.), rather than to repressed childhood disturbances; cf. psychoneurosis n.Freud originally identified anxiety neurosis and neurasthenia as the actual neuroses; he later added hypochondria. ΚΠ 1910 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 5 57 Freud divides the neuroses into psycho and actual neuroses. The psychoneuroses comprise hysteria and compulsion neurosis (doubts, obsessions, and phobias), while the actual neuroses include neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis. 1932 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Feb. 373/1 The two main divisions are: regression (fixation) neuroses, and actual neuroses. 2000 J. Mitchell Mad Men & Medusas ii. 53 ‘Actual neuroses’—a term little used today—were thought to be caused by current sexual difficulties such as enforced abstinence. < as lemmas |
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