But in fact every neurotic does the same with some fragment of reality.(2) And we are now confronted with the task of investigating theĭevelopment of the relation of neurotics and of mankind in general to reality, and in this way of bringing the psychological significance of the real external world into the structure of our theories. Particular event that occasioned the outbreak of their insanity (Griesinger). The most extreme type of this turning away from reality is shown by certain cases of hallucinatory psychosis which seek to deny the Reality because they find it unbearable - either the whole or parts of it. With the fundamental determinants of neurosis.(1) By introducing the process of repression into the genesis of the neuroses we have been able to gain some insight into this connection.

The observation of Pierre Janet he spoke: of a loss of 'la fonction du réel' as being a special characteristic of neurotics, but without discovering the connection of this disturbance Have long observed that every neurosis has as its result, and probably therefore as its purpose, a forcing of the patient out of real life, an alienating of him from reality.

Reality principle