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Neurotic

"But there is a question which i can hardly evade. If the development of civilization has such far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization -- possibly the whole of mankind -- have become 'neurotic'?" Sigmund Freud , Civilizations and its Discontents