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Sigmund Freud quotes

Ocupation: Neurologist

Life: May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939

Birthday: May 6

Death: September 23

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Topics: Inspiring, Education, Teacher, Interpretation Of Dreams, Psychoanalysis

Quotation Sigmund Freud One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike Quotes

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Topics: Peace, War, Rocks, Angry Person

Quotation Sigmund Freud Unexpressed emotions will never die They are buried alive and Quotes

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

source: - Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Fond Memories, Overcoming Adversity

Quotation Sigmund Freud In the small matters trust the mind in the large Quotes

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

source: - Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

Topics: Funny, Women, Years, Psychoanalysis, Women Want

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Alive, Way, Expressing Emotions, Self Expression

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

Topics: Long, Effort, Feelings

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Topics: Inspirational, Positive, Education

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Topics: Doe, Want

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Topics: Leadership, Water, Psychoanalysis, Iceberg, Tip Of The Iceberg

One is very crazy when in love.

Topics: Love, Crazy, Godly

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Topics: Doe, Chaos, Forgotten

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

Topics: Real, Psychics, Data, Conscious And Unconscious

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Topics: Statistics, Belief, Unbelief

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Topics: Failure, Errors

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Topics: Cute, Dog, Hate, Love And Hate, Man And Dog

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Topics: Teacher, Men, Decision, Orators

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Topics: Dream, Royal, Unconscious, Interpretation Of Dreams, Summarizing

The ego is not master in its own house.

Topics: Self Worth, House, Ego, Psychoanalysis

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Topics: Inspirational Life, Flower, Looks, Restful

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Topics: Symbolism, Imagination, Age

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Topics: Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets, Kept Secrets, Fingertips

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Topics: Peace, War, Men, Disintegration, Civilised Society

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

Topics: Men, Voice, May, Psychoanalysis, Rebuff

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Topics: Dream, Men, Honor, Wicked Man, Actual Life

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Topics: Missing You, Wisdom, Children, Distressing, Different Mentality

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Topics: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Topics: Pain, Reality, Investing, Collide

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Topics: Time, Cat, Animal, Kitties, Inspirational Cat

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical, Love And Responsibility, Psychoanalytic

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

Topics: Dream, Waking, Technique, Waking Life

... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will ...

Topics: War, Men, Promise

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

Topics: Suffering, Elements, Might

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

Topics: Pain, Men, Anxiety, Dissolution

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

Topics: Atheist, Nice, Order, Order In The Universe

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

Topics: Mother, Psychology, Nine Months

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Topics: Sex, Two, Feminist, Anti Feminist

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

Topics: Fear, Emotional, Maturity

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Topics: Love, Change, Humble

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Topics: Reality, Ego, Suffering, Gallows, Gallows Humor

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

source: - Sigmund Freud (1975). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”

Topics: Life, Mother, Self Esteem

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Topics: Childhood, Religion, Neurosis

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Topics: Work, And Love, Work And Love

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Topics: Love, Friendship, Secret Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Topics: Love, Spiritual, Work, Happy Love, Cornerstones

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Topics: Children, Play, Creative, Creative Writers

The madman is a dreamer awake

Topics: Dreamer, Awake, Madmen

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Topics: Civilization, Use, Obvious

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Topics: Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Topics: Ideas, Human Nature, Argument

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Topics: Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Topics: Firsts, Serious, Use

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Topics: Greatness, Men, Facts

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Topics: Dream, Influence, Contradiction

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Topics: Life, Nature, Learning, Decisions Made, Making Decisions

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Topics: Paranoid, Mistaken

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Topics: Men, Atheism, Normal

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Topics: Men, Creation, Intention

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Topics: Strength, Death, Spiritual, Religion In Society

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Topics: Creativity, Ideas, Innovation, Moral Ambiguity

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

Topics: Inspirational, Desire

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Morality, Psychoanalysis, Immorality

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Topics: Powerful, Independent, Men

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.

Topics: Fall, Psychology, Mind, Psychoanalysis, Subconscious Mind

If youth knew; if age could.

Topics: Inspirational, Age, Youth

The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

Topics: Optimistic, Voice, May

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Topics: Inspirational, Anger, Civilization, Psychoanalysis

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Topics: Civilization, Numbers, Perspective, Unsatisfied

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

Topics: Pain, Powerful, Disappointment, Deflection, Diminish

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Topics: Civilization, Justice, Firsts

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Topics: Kissing, Smoking, Indispensable, Smoking Cigars

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

Topics: Children, Loss, Expression

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

Topics: Civilization, Guilt, Different, Different Religions

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Topics: Pain, Illusion, Pleasure

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

Topics: Change, Loss, Grieving, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Loss

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Topics: Gains, Littles, Intense

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Topics: Knowledge, Men, Poetry, Poetry By Famous Poets

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Topics: Writing, Letters, Something New, Letter Writing

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Topics: Inspirational, Heart, Mind

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Topics: Civilization, Intuition, Impossible, Natural Instinct

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Topics: Happiness, Happy, Joy, Others Happiness, High Notes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Topics: Men, Insanity, Mind

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

source: - Sigmund Freud (2016). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)”, p.25, Sigmund Freud

I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Topics: Dream, Thinking, People

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

Topics: Dream, Safety, Brain, Dream Act, Valve

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Topics: Rejection, Perception, Wish

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Topics: Mistake, Usa, America, United States Of America

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Topics: Caring, Share, Prose

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Topics: Life, Essence, Cures, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic

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.

Topics: Attitude, Reality, Thinking, Infantile

All that matters is love and work.

Topics: Sweet, Sweet Love, Matter

The goal of all life is death

Topics: Goal, Life Is

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

Topics: People, Advice, Behavior

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Topics: Religious, Men, Religion, Religious Belief, Atheistic

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

Topics: Hands, Giving, Littles, Psychoanalysis

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Topics: Scientific Method, Philosopher, Poet

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Topics: Being Strong, Military, Men

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Topics: Effort, Honest, Humans

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Topics: Degrees, Neurosis, Psychologist

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

Topics: Tyrants, Ego, World, Superego

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Topics: Running, Atheist, Long

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

Topics: Men, Self, Support

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.

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Maps, Miniatures

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

Topics: Distance, Past, Yield

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

Topics: Love, Aggression, Humans, Private Property

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Topics: Psychological, Sexuality, Found, Masculinity

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Topics: Voice, Squash, Doe

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Topics: Dream, Evil, Understanding

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Topics: Decision, Pros And Cons, Found

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Topics: Poet, Poetry By Famous Poets

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Topics: Funny, Women, Should, Funny Women

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Topics: Inspiring, Dream, Morning, Keep Dreaming, Lucid Dreaming

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Topics: Dream, Science, Mind, Interpretation Of Dreams, Interpreting

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Topics: Peace, War, Violence, Misdeeds

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Topics: Wisdom, Justice, Smoking, Tobacco

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Topics: Faith, Believe, Doe

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Topics: Life, Time, Book, Repression, Middle Ages

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Topics: Wish, Illusion, Characteristics

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Topics: Ideas, Purpose, Consciousness

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. [...] If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

Topics: Mean, Men, Maturity

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

Topics: Plato, Believe, Book, Modern Times, Being Gay

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Topics: Wife, Funny Marriage, Ears, Another Woman

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

Topics: Games, Movement, Pleasure

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Topics: Love, Hate, Unexpected, Love And Hate, Ambivalence

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

Topics: Children, Intellectual, Levels

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

Topics: Religious, Fear, Civilization, Civilized Behavior

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Topics: Anger, Self, People

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats them.

Topics: Strong, People, Needs

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

Topics: Religious, Mistake, Believe, Catechism

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

Topics: Art, Teaching, Feet

A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!"

Topics: Sex, Men, Long

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.

Topics: Religious, Teaching, Views, Analytics, Relics

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.

Topics: Attitude, Ideas, People, Involuntary

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Topics: Writing, Wealth, Fame

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

Topics: Views, Definitions, Facts, Proceeding

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

Topics: Doors, Keys, Neurosis, Disdain

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Topics: Feelings, Rebuke

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Topics: Civilization, Aggression, Inclination, Impediments

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

Topics: Children, Real, Opposites

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.

Topics: Men, Giving, Mind

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Topics: Life, Community, Together, Brute Force

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Topics: God, Father, Special, Insistence

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Topics: Religious, Believe, Doctrine

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Topics: Support, Morality, Found

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Topics: Struggle, Evil, Half, Tamed

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

Topics: Horse, Powerful, Goal, Psychoanalysis

A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.

Topics: Believe, Order, Magic

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Topics: Men, Anxiety, Unrest

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Topics: Civilization, Race, Unity, Eros, Human Civilization

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

Topics: Mother, Father, Oedipus

As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.

Topics: Dream, Inspiration, Two, Divine Inspiration

Not all men are worthy of love.

Topics: Men, Worthy, Worthy Of Love

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

Topics: Mean, Civilization, Imperfection, Resisting

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Topics: Religious, Patterns, Individual

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Topics: Ego, Enemy, Becoming, Tamed

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Topics: Development, Form, Humans

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...

Topics: Littles, Trash, Found

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

Topics: Life And Death, Instinct, Life Death

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

Topics: Hysteria, May, Neurosis, Philosophic, Artistic Creation

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Topics: Mean, Punishment, Satisfaction

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Topics: Differences, Fundamentals, Groups, Small Differences

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Topics: Religious, Fall, Ideas

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Topics: Science, Abuse, Praise, Quip

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Topics: Dark, Doe, May, Timidity

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Topics: Safety, People, Chance

If you can't do it, give up!

Topics: Giving Up, Giving

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

Topics: Passion, Mind, Battle, Untamed, Psychotherapists

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Topics: Anxiety, Silence, Darkness, Infantile

It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.

Topics: Children, Two, Government

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

Topics: Brother, Children, Fall, Enticing

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Topics: War, Civilization, Growth, Against War

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Roots

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Topics: Gowns, Gaps, Philosopher, Nightcap, Unjustified

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

Topics: Baby, Fall, Reflection, Falling Asleep

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Topics: Fate, Doubt, Suffering

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

Topics: Horse, Passion, Men, Beckoning

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.

Topics: Children, Parent, Psychology

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

Topics: Cost, Heritage, Culture, Cultural Heritage

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

Topics: Strong, Fall, Frustration, Egoism

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

Topics: Passion, Sacrifice, Temples

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Topics: Men, Reality, Satisfaction

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

Topics: Numbers, Long, People

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Topics: Humanity, Neurosis

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Topics: Mistake, People

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Topics: Children, Father, Atheism

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Topics: Atheism, Affliction, Neurosis

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Topics: Art, Philosophy, Believe

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Topics: Self, Years, Fifty

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Topics: Reality, Patient, Reason

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.

Topics: Reality, Confusion, Religion

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Topics: Men, Desire

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

Topics: Men, Support, Wish

There are no mistakes

Topics: Mistake

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Topics: Love Relationship, Height, Rooms

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Growth

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Topics: Subconscious

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Topics: Family, Life Is, Organized

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Topics: Love Is, Psychosis, States

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Topics: Maturity, Psychology, Mature, Adulthood, Postponing

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Topics: Shame, Masturbation, Wells

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