Sigmund Freud Quotes


63 quotes:

"The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us / of becoming happy / is not attainable: yet we may not / nay, cannot / give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Miracles Quotes
"The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Mind Quotes Psychoanalysis Quotes
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Intention Quotes
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Intention Quotes
"Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological, to play such an important part in civilized life. If one were to yield to a first impression, one would say that sublimation is a vicissitude which has been forced upon the instincts entirely by civilization. But it would be wiser to reflect upon this a little longer. In the third place, finally, and this seems the most important of all, it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct, how much it presupposes precisely the non-satisfaction (by suppression, repression or some other means?) of powerful instincts. This ‘cultural frustration’ dominates the large field of social relationships between human beings;we know already that it is the cause of the antagonism against which all civilization has to fight."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Instinct Quotes
"The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Illusion Quotes
"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Society Quotes Human Nature Quotes
"It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Humanity Quotes Procreation Quotes
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Fear Quotes
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise"
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Exercise Quotes
"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"Where id was, there shall ego be."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Ego Quotes
"Love and work...work and love, that's all there is."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Duty Quotes
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Author: Freud Quotes Category: Dreams Quotes

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