THE CONCEPT OF NEMESIS IN PSYCHONEUROSIS

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The term nemesis feeling is introduced to designate a feeling or conviction by a patient that he is destined to follow in his life pattern the general outlines of some other person''s life, usually to a tragic end. It is rooted in the profound guilt feelings the patient has over what he feels his role was in the precipitation of the insanity or death of a parent during the patient''s childhood. Though phobic, anxiety, psychosomatic or obsessive symptoms may be the overt difficulty, the central problem remains the nemesis feeling which must be explored and worked through to affect the basic pathologic process.

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