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→Mental Disorder
[[Freud]] uses the term in a number of ways, sometimes as a general term for all [[treatment|mental disorders]] in [[Works of Sigmund Freud|his early work]], and sometimes to denote a specific class of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]).
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It is a pathological mental condition in which there are no observable lesions in the neuropsychological system.
The patient is normally aware of the morbidity of his or her coniditon and a neurosis can, unlike a psychosis, be trated with the patient's consent.
Neurosis is normally understood as a condition such as hysteria in which somatic symptoms are an expression of a psychical conflict originating in childhood.
Modern psychoanalysis describes patients presenting obsessional, phobic or hysterical symptoms as neurotic.
==Jacques Lacan==
