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TWENTY - FOURTH LECTURE GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES Ordinary Nervousness IN our last discussion we accomplish a difficult task . Now I shall temporarily leave our subject and address myself to you . For I know quite well that you are dissatisfied . You thought that an introduction to psychoanalysis would be quite a different matter . You expected to hear vivid illustrations instead of theories . You will tell me that when I gave you the illustration of " on the ground floor in the first story , " you had grasped something of the causation of neurosis , only of course this should have been a real observation and not an imaginary story . Or , when in the beginning I described two symptoms ( not imaginary also , let us hope ) whose analysis revealed a close connection with the life of the patient , you first came to grasp the meaning of the symptoms and you hoped that I would proceed in the same way . Instead I have given you theories — lengthy , difficult to see in perspective and incomplete , to which something new was constantly being added . I worked with conceptions that I had not previously presented to you , abandoned descriptive for dynamic conceptions , and these in turn for economic ones . I made it hard for you to understand how many of the artificial terms I made use of still carry the same meaning and are used interchangeably only for the sake of euphony . Finally , I allowed broad conceptions to pass in review before you : the principles of pleasure and of fact and their phylogenetically inherited possession ; and then , instead of introducing you to definite facts , I allowed them to become increasingly vague till they seemed to fade into dim distances . Why did I not begin my introduction to the theory of neurosis with the facts that you yourselves know about nervousness , with something that has always aroused your interest , with the peculiar temperament of nervous people , their incomprehensible reactions to external influences , to human intercourse , their irritability , their uselessness ? Why did I not lead you step by step from the understanding of simple , everyday forms to the problems of mysterious and extreme manifestations of nervousness ?
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