| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61544 |
| QUOTATION: | Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lionel Trilling (1905–1975), U.S. critic. Notebook entry, 1946. Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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