Sigmund Freud Quotes about Psychology

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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Sigmund Freud

Maturity, Psychology, Mature

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

Sigmund Freud

Women, Dark, Psychology

The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Sigmund Freud

Mother, Psychology, Pessimistic

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

Sigmund Freud

Children, Parent, Psychology

Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

Fall, Psychology, Mind

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In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Sigmund Freud

Science, Psychology, Analysis

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

Sigmund Freud

Moving, Thinking, Psychology

"New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

Sigmund Freud

Men, Ideas, Psychology

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