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Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 7

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Scientific Method, Philosopher, Poet

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

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

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.

Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

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

Where id was, there ego shall be.

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

Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

Civilization, Renunciation

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

Choices, Decision, Important

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

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.

Men, Insanity, Mind

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Facts, Collecting, Collections

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Lying, People, Intellectual

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.590, Basic Books

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Wish, Able, Aviation

Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Peace, Home, Writing

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

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