Sigmund Freud Quotes about Teaching

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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Sigmund Freud

Art, Teaching, Feet

These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Teaching, Thinking

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Teaching, Views

"The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Teaching, Mean

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