Psychotherapist, President of the association Le Quattro Stagioni, Rome, Italy
Review Article
Individual, Groups and Neurosis: Critical Review
Author(s): Gianfranco Tomei*, Marco Petri and Manfredo Lauro Grotto
For Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, neurosis is a conflict between the impulses of the Id that press to be satisfied
and the prohibitions of the Superego that, through the mediation of the Ego, attempt to slow them down for Alfred
Adler, however, neurosis does not derive, unlike what Freud stated, from the conflict between the libidinal drives that
press for affirmation and the internalized limitations of the Superego, but from a sense of inferiority that would
prevent man from achieving his ideal half of virility and security. Neurosis would form within a typical nervous
temperament. The question is to what extent a group can be inclusive or exclusive or, if we prefer, how more or less
open the group can be in accepting new members. It seems reasonable to expect that any young group will have
neither the desire nor the strength to be able to manage a highly neuro.. View more»