title: Origins of the fear of success.
abstract: Although neurotic conflicts relating to achievement and success are common among patients in psychoanalysis, the psychoanalytic literature is remarkably limited and tends to portray conflict relating to success only in terms of oedipal conflict. Through four clinical vignettes of patients in psychoanalysis, the authors demonstrate that the fear of success is an overdetermined final common pathway for conflicts at any of several developmental levels.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy