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Freud, Sigmund. Certain Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality.
Odier, Ch. The Complex of a Little Profit.
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The Complex of a Little Profit.—In the normal individual the ego has succeeded in imposing on the id, the social contract, i. e., to give as much as one receives. In many neurotic symptoms can be verified the hegemony of the captative-possession tendencies, i. e., to get without giving. In a previous article, “Money and the Neuroses,” Odier verified the above statements by the means of clinical cases. Now apparently the number of normal individuals greatly surpasses the asocial ones, neuropaths and delinquents. In this article, however, the author shows by examples of various character traits and idiosyncrasies that society in reality is composed of a majority of people secretly asocial. They have what he calls “the complex of a little profit.” This is manifested by the