neurosis

The Ratliffs, with their North Carolina money and the neuroses to which they generally remain oblivious, are also deeply human.

Combining the neuroses of insecure teenagers and the poll-monitoring reticence of politicians fit for parody, they appear both weak and bashful.

“I can’t control where in one’s toilet scrolling one is finding my interview about neuroses and vulnerability, right?”

For Mathew Horne, having played Gavin for 17 years is throwing up all sorts of existential questions: "I'm putting to one side all my neuroses about that and to the ageing process."

In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.