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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 16

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When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Dark, Doe, May

Sigmund Freud (2013). “The Problem of Anxiety”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

God, Men, Giving

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

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

Life, Gay, Lgbt

Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Religion, Kind, Share

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

It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.

Children, Government, Two

Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected papers ...”

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Religious, Patterns, Individual

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

Sex, Animal, Law

Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.37, Routledge

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

Fate, Doe, Realization

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Life, Time, Book

Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Strength, Death, Spiritual

Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Mean, Punishment, Needs

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

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Believe, Actors, Has Beens

Sigmund Freud (1935). “Autobiography”

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

Intellectual, Unity, Perception

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.111, Psychology Press

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Race, Psychics, Development

Sigmund Freud (2016). “The Collected Works of Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, Leonardo da Vinci…”, p.1532, e-artnow

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Fate, Doubt, Suffering

"Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

Children, Rain, Animal

Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.3, Routledge

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

Law, Totems, Institutions

Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.4, Routledge

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

Civilization, Guilt, Different

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

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Race, Humanity, Development

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

Important, Analysis, Division

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

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Firsts, Illusion, Said

Sigmund Freud (1947). “Freud: on War, Sex and Neurosis”

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

Children, Optimistic, Ideas

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

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

Civilization, Justice, Liberty

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

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Ideas, Purpose, Consciousness

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Littles, Gains, Intense

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