Top 25 Quotes by Sigmund Freud of 464 - Page 7

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

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

Sigmund Freud

Children, Loss, Expression

Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three contributions to the theory of sex”, Plume

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

God, Father, Special

Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Sigmund Freud

Support, Morality, Found

"The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 7, 1927.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Sigmund Freud

Scientific Method, Philosopher, Poet

Quoted in Philip R. Lehrman, "Freud's Contributions to Science," Harofe Haivri (1940)

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

Sigmund Freud

Inspirational, Desire, Presses

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

Sigmund Freud

Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Sigmund Freud

Ego

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis Lecture 31 (1933)

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Sigmund Freud

Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization, Renunciation

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Sigmund Freud

Choices, Decision, Important

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Sigmund Freud

Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sigmund Freud

Men, Insanity, Mind

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Sigmund Freud

Hypocrite, Matter, Sexuality

Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

Sigmund Freud

Dream, Tree, Uterus

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

Sigmund Freud

Powerful, Men, Wish

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

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Sigmund Freud

Sex, Two, Feminist

Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Sigmund Freud

Silence, Anxiety, Darkness

Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.229, Stanford University Press

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Sigmund Freud

Real, Doubt, Mind

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

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

Sigmund Freud

Two, Humanity, Unity

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”