The neurotic is not where we would like it to be: far away, somewhere in a therapy treatment room, or at least most likely as part of the psyche of others. No, it's in each of us. If you want to describe briefly what exactly a "neurosis" is, the difficulties already begin: a mental illness or part of "normality"? The answer is: both and! The neurotic can be understood as a kind of continuum with mental illness at one end and everyday peculiarities at the other. As the title of the book "With neuroses on the way" expresses, we encounter the conflictual nature of the human psyche at every turn...