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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 10

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Happiness, Happy, Joy

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Use, Firsts, Serious

Sigmund Freud, Sander L. Gilman (1995). “Psychological writings and letters”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Ego, Enemy, Savages

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

Girl, Home, Age

SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Hands, Giving, Littles

Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

There are no mistakes.

Mistake

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Civilization, Intuition, Natural Instinct

Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Atheism, Tasks, Affliction

The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

Attitude, Ideas, People

Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Decision, Found, Pros And Cons

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Pain, Disappointment, Tasks

Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Religious, Fall, Ideas

Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

People, Solitude, Suffering

Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

War, Civilization, Growth

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Ego, World, Influence

Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

Horse, Powerful, Goal

"New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Hard, Ifs

Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.68, eKitap Projesi

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Love, Mind, Stage

Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere, James Strachey (1959). “Collected Papers: Papers on metapsychology. Papers on applied psycho-analysis”

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Ideas, Argument, Human Nature

Sigmund Freud (2015). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Top of Sigmund Freud”, p.7, 谷月社

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Giving Up, Ego, Persons

Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Life, Giving Up, Pain

Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

Love, Life, Death

Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

Children, Needs, Helping

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Ideas, Analysis, Resistance

Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Essence, People, Understanding

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