actual neurosis
Psychology (now chiefly historical )
noun
(Freud's term for) a neurosis attributed to sexual frustration in the present (due to abstinence, impotence, etc.), rather than to repressed childhood disturbances.
- Freud originally identified anxiety neurosis and neurasthenia as the actual neuroses; he later added hypochondria..
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Journal of Abnormal Psychology. After German Aktualneurose.