What Is Neurotic Conflict?

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The cause of neurosis is very often a neurotic conflict generated by the collision of divergent (i.e. diverging in different directions) neurotic drives.

Neurotic drives are associated with conflicting attitudes in relation to other people, in relation to oneself and mutually exclusive values of the individual.

Karen Horney points out that within every neurosis there is a basic conflict. This is a conflict between the desire to "move towards people", the desire to "move against people" and "movement from people." In the neurotic, the impulses coming from these needs are unconscious. And the neurotic makes desperate attempts to resolve this conflict, so as not to split into parts and remain an integral person.

An important factor for resolving an internal conflict is: Firstly, good awareness of their feelings and desires, understanding of their thoughts and attitudes, and Secondly, the ability to make an informed choice, which is facilitated by the first factor.

For a neurotic, the awareness of feelings and desires is always a problem, and the ability to make a choice and be responsible for it is accompanied by such fear and anxiety that it is rarely realized.

Of course, the conflicts of a neurotic can be caused by the same problems as in a healthy person. But they have their own characteristics and characteristics.

What are the characteristics of neurotic conflict?

Incompatibility of conflicting drives
The unconscious nature of drives
Compulsive drives (obsessive, quickly realized, without thinking)

For a normal person, the choice that he must make between two tendencies is limited by two directions of action, which are quite accessible to a sufficiently integrated personality.

A neurotic conflict is always unconscious, a person is not aware of his conflicting, often mutually exclusive tendencies. Even if a healthy person is not aware of his conflicts, he can easily do it if he wishes. For the neurotic, this is a huge problem, since neurotic drives are deeply repressed, and the situation is overcome through serious internal work, usually with the participation of a specialist.

In a normal conflict, a person chooses between two tendencies, each of which he may well implement. Or a person can choose between two value attitudes that he truly values. Therefore, he makes a conscious choice, yes, difficult and requiring him to restrict in some way, but real for him.

A neurotic cannot make a choice and suffers constantly: on the one hand, because of the unconsciousness of his drives, and on the other hand, because every tendency that breaks him is not really valuable to him, and he is not yet valuable to his authenticity. reached. They make the neurotic helpless in desperate attempts to change something in his life, and contribute to the inner destruction of the personality.

Neurotic conflicts are very difficult to recognize because they are unconscious and the neurotic does his best not to acknowledge their existence. Therefore, the work of a specialist consists in the study of a person's neurotic needs, bringing them to the level of the client's awareness, helping in the integration of their conflicting parts, which contributes to a change in a person's attitude to himself and to others. Making him a happier and more satisfied person with life.

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