Cultural and psychological implications of neuroses -- Reasons for speaking of a "neurotic personality of our time" -- Anxiety -- Anxiety and hostility -- The basic structure of neuroses -- The neurotic need for affection -- Further characteristics of the neurotic need for affection -- Ways of getting affection and sensitivity to rejection -- The role of sexuality in the neurotic need for affection -- The quest for power, prestige and possession -- Neurotic competitiveness -- Recoiling from competition -- Neurotic guilt feelings -- The meaning of neurotic suffering (The problem of masochism) -- Culture and neurosis
