title: [Choice of symptoms in neuroses. Psychosomatic syndromes].
abstract: We think that we have collected a certain amount of arguments in support of the following hypothesis: Without assuming if it is in itself the cause of neuroses, the way of being and of thinking in this world, characteristic of our times' positivistic technico-industrial culture seems to promote a more or less artificial and unconscious anti-anxiety behaviour leading to the psychosomatic syndromes. This way of being in the world and of thinking it is symptomatic of a discrepancy between the exogen (primacy of assimilation) and the endogen (primacy of accommodation) assimilation/accommodation balance. The non-decoupling of the exogen and endogen accommodation leads to a rigid content of concepts and limits the mind process to consider only the materially possible, leading to a regressive causality. Its' ultimate term is the object in which the essence includes the existence, the "causa sui" that is none other than the patient's body. Inability to take into account what is structurally possible makes it difficult to approach the notions of chance and of great numbers, proceeding on to apprehend the time in a way akin to Aristoteles', where the future is reduced to chance. This type of thinking limits the world's understanding to what is materially possible. Outside this, just everything is possible, including the possible the occult sciences account for.
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D001007:Anxiety; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011336:Probability; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking; D013998:Time Perception
vernacular_title: Choix des symptômes dans les névroses. Syndromes psychosomatiques.