[Neurotic inhibition]

Inhibition is a normal neuro-physiologic regulation phenomenon which antagonizes the dangerous aspects of excitation and which facilitates the adaptation of man to his surroundings. Inhibition becomes neurotic: -- when it fails in its normative-connection with excitation. -- when accompanied by anxiety, -- when the subject cannot control it, -- however without blocking all the psychic functions as the psychotic inhibition does. Accompanying symptoms diversify its ways of expression. Contemporary to trauma in neurasthenia, it proceeds from early trauma in psychasthenia and in hystero-phobic neuroses. For some authors, it may be innate, perhaps hereditary. It appears particularly severe, because it lasts when the symptomatology has disappeared during the analytic therapy and it seems to resist more than the excitation to chemotherapies.