Sigmund Freud Quotes about Attitude

All Sigmund Freud Quotes Achievement Affection Age Aggression Anger Anxiety Art Atheism Atheist Attitude quotes Authority Belief Childhood Children Choices Community Conflict Consciousness Creation Culture Darkness Death Desire Doubt Dying Effort Ego Egoism Fate Feelings Funny Giving Giving Up God Happiness History Home Humanity Illness Imagination Injustice Inspiration Inspirational Justice Knowledge Learning Liberty Life Loss Love Memories Morality Nature Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Pleasure Psychiatry Psycho Psychology Purpose Reality Reflection Religion Running Safety Science Sexuality Smoking Solitude Son Soul Suffering Teaching Truth Unity War Water Wisdom Work Writing

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge of their own free will and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

Sigmund Freud

Attitude, Ideas, People

Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

Attitude, Special, Dying

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.

Sigmund Freud

Atheist, Attitude, Reality

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