Innate forces in the child, particularly his drives toward growth and self-expression and his need for love, are in conflict with the more powerful directing and restricting influences of the parents to which the child has to submit. Angry and hostile reactions to the parents are repressed because of the need for love but they persist as powerful unconscious forces leading to a variety of neurotic symptoms and character disturbances. The patient hides from himself and from others his unwitting dedication to a life of hostile revenge which is acted out in interpersonal relations and in self-sabotage. The neurosis is not only a cry for love and nourishment but also an attempt to punish all adults. Three cases are given illustrating this thesis which refers exclusively to the environmental causation of neurosis.