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Sigmund Freud Quotes about Writing

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

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

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

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

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.453, Courier Corporation