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The authors offer the concept of a specific 'retirement neurosis' occurring in personalities with an orally determined character structure. This neurosis is
characterized by the attempt to achieve economically secured retirement in early adult life, this aim cloaking a deep masochistic drive having its inception in a pathological relationship to a refusing mother. The demands from life are small, and, having achieved a trivial fixed income, the patient retires to a life of emptiness and increasing neuroticism. The predominance of oral traits in such patients differentiates them from patients who exploit an accident in order to obtain insurance or similar compensation.