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Monday, September 5, 2022

Greed as a neurotic compulsion

 


A Simple truth is always worth repeating. Money does not give us value, earn respect, make us decent. 

Those who use money, to pursue more money, or take from those who have less, or possess wealth to the point that it possesses them, suffer a sickness that will end our humanity.






What are neurotic compulsions?


A study of compulsion neurosis shows a striving for personal superiority which, from fear of betraying an actual inferiority, is diverted into easy and generally useless channels. Fear of failure leads to a hesitating attitude which finds expression in killing time, repeating a single routine.