The symptom in the true neuroses is frequently the nucleus and incipient stage of development of the psychoneurotic symptom.
It is not, therefore, only the psychoneurotic whose unconscious takes the form of the "Œdipus complex."
The result can be an almost normal sexual life—usually a limited one—but supplemented by psychoneurotic disease.
It is in those of delicate health, neurotic disposition, and psychoneurotic tendencies, that reassurances are needed.
They develop exactly as psychoneurotic conditions do in the abdomen or in joints.