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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

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

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Sigmund Freud
Giving, Asking

If you can't do it, give up!

Sigmund Freud
Giving Up, Giving, Ifs

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

Sigmund Freud
Religious, Names, Giving
Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Sigmund Freud
Hands, Giving, Littles
Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

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

Sigmund Freud
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”

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.

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

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.

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

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.

Sigmund Freud
Religious, Fall, Giving
Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.22, Routledge

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

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

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Sigmund Freud
Giving, Substance, May
Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.58, eKitap Projesi

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

Sigmund Freud
Men, Giving, Mind
Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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