Neurosis

Psychoanalytic definition of neurosis: A disorder resulting from an unconscious conflict between the subject’s impulses and the prohibitions against their achievements.

precisely: the impulses emitted by That, especially certain sexual impulses, are pushed back under the influence of the prohibitions present in the Surmoi, and end up expressing through abnormal ways. These deflected impulses do not alter the Self, who simply finds the anomaly of neurotic behavior, without knowing how to resolve the conflict, since it is played in the unconscious.

A culture that imposes prohibitions against nature, i.e. contrary to innate impulses, inevitably has the effect of endemic neurosis. Deviations can also be expressed as sublimation, through socially felt positive behaviours.

The question here is whether these general neurotic traits affect the environment.

A priori, one might think that sexual refoulement problems have nothing to do with the ecological problem. This, however, deserves further consideration. These refoulements date back to early childhood and profoundly alter behaviour. The child learns to compensate for frustration with fun-mouths, toys, aggressive demonstrations. The possible consequences for adulthood are immediately deduced: bulimia, possession of superfluous objects, loss of empathy in the face of others and nature.

A more in-depth study between neurosis and anti-ecological behaviour is therefore not superfluous in order to determine to what extent repressive morality would be one of the hidden causes of the ecological impasse. In this area as in others, objectivity must take precedence over all subjective considerations…