Question

Freud asserted that ________ lay at the core of his patients' neurotic behavior.

Answer 1

Answer:

c. repressed sexual desires

Explanation:

A person that has been afflicted by neurosis leads to them behaving in a neurotic manner. It is a class of mental disorder which leads to the development of chronic distress but does not lead to delusions or hallucinations.

According to Freud a persons psychological-sexual development happens as follows:

Polymorphous contrariness when an infant

Latency stage.

Freud believed that repressing these stages of development leads to neurosis.