Freedom as the highest ideal—moral, physical, political, social. Freedom is not about limitless choices, but about good choices; life is not about finite freedom, but the opportunity to fully experience, develop, and test the self.
Karen Horney on the neurotic:
…there is a marked contradiction between their wish for affection and their own capacity for feeling or giving it. Excessive demands concerning consideration for their own wishes may go with just as great a lack of consideration for others. The contradiction does not always appear on the surface. The neurotic may, for example, be over considerate and eager to be helpful to everyone, but if this is the case it is noticeable that he acts compulsively, not out of a spontaneously radiating warmth.
I sometimes think my work, at least in my plays, is motivated by a neurosis about neurosis, a fear of letting stones go unturned—a militant, and therefore, self-defeating anti-neuroticism.