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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 12

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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Doctors, Mirrors, Opaque

Sigmund Freud, E. James Lieberman, Robert Kramer, Dr Gregory C Richter (2012). “The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis”, p.153, JHU Press

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Religion, Neurosis, Psychiatry

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Childhood, Gold, Fascination

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.

Believe, Blessed, Thinking

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

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Men, Kind, Organs

Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Race, Civilization, Unity

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

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Men, Desire

Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Love, Development, Individual

Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.75, eKitap Projesi

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

Effort, Soul, Age

"Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home". Book by Emanuel Rice, p. 25, quoting Letter to Dr. David Feuchtwang (1931), 1990.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

Men, Support, Wish

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Father, Order, Dead Father

Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.243, Stanford University Press

If children could, if adults knew.

Children, Adults, Ifs

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

Men, Civilization, Safety

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

Men, Voice, Weakness

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

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

Atheist, Attitude, Reality

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

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Dream, Writing, Play

Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Father, Hero, Men

Sigmund Freud (2016). “Moses and Monotheism”, p.11, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

Reality, Wish, Force

Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.

Religious, Teaching, Thinking

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Religious, Childhood, Religion

SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Strong, Memories, Childhood

Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Peace, War, Violence

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Suffering, Needs, World

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

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Peace, War, Men

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Real, Long, Purpose

Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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