Individual, Groups and Neurosis: Critical Review

For Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, neurosis is a conflict between the impulses of the Id that press to be satisfied and the prohibitions of the Superego that, through the mediation of the Ego, attempt to slow them down for Alfred Adler, however, neurosis does not derive, unlike what Freud stated, from the conflict between the libidinal drives that press for affirmation and the internalized limitations of the Superego, but from a sense of inferiority that would prevent man from achieving his ideal half of virility and security. Neurosis would form within a typical nervous temperament. The question is to what extent a group can be inclusive or exclusive or, if we prefer, how more or less open the group can be in accepting new members. It seems reasonable to expect that any young group will have neither the desire nor the strength to be able to manage a highly neurotic/psychotic and therefore particularly destabilizing person. Only highly evolved groups, where aggregative and lateral thinking prevails, are able to manage the presence of the neurotic individual.