Sigmund Freud Quotes

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief"

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."

"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

"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."

"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love"

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."

"We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology."

"the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations"

"Love and work...work and love, that's all there is."

"Where id was, there shall ego be."

"Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us"

"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."

"Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks"

"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."

"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?"

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."