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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 13

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No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

Work, Mean, Reality

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

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

People, Safety, Chance

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

Psychosis, Ego, World

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

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Science, Giving, Would Be

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

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Insecure, Past, Men

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

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

Love, Aggression, Humans

"The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

Morality, Form, Judaism

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

Mean, Affection, Spending

The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

Real, Break Through, Effort

Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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.

Nature, Children, Humanity

Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications”

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.

Life, Men, Atheism

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

Civilization, Justice, Firsts

"The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud".

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Life, Community, Together

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

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

Life, Men, Easy

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Men, Doe, Injustice

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

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Pain, Reality, Investing

Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

Views, Definitions, Facts

Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Reality, Physical Attraction

Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

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.

Girl, Dark, Boys

The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Sadism, Ends, Should

The world is no nursery.

World, Nursery

Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Ambition, Character, Taught Us

Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

Mistake, America, Nevertheless

"The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: Years of maturity, 1901-1919". Book by Ernest Jones, p. 60, 1957.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

Suffering, Tasks, Elements

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 aggressiveness.

Love, Anger, Numbers

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

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