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Character Neurosis

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The term "[[character]] [[neurosis]]" did not originate with [[Freud]]. It grew out of difficulties in treating character pathologies, distinguished by the great [[resistance]] that character opposes to [[analysis]]. And its use spread in the wake of Wilhelm [[Reich]]'s [[work]] on [[Character Analysis|character analysis ]] beginning in 1928. [[Sigmund Freud]], in lecture 34 of his New Introductory Lectures on [[Psycho]]-Analysis (1933a [1932]), underscored the often extremely long duration required by character analysis, but, he assured readers, "it is often successful" (p. 156).
It was undoubtedly a [[lack]] of success with such cases that led Reich to his conception of "character armor." At the [[time]] he was [[working]] at the [[Vienna]] [[Psychoanalytic]] [[Clinic]] with impulsive psychopaths. The problems raised by their [[treatment]], he said, required a sharp focus on the [[structure]] of the impulsive ego.
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