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Ocupation: Neurologist

Life: January 1, 1879 - February 11, 1958

Birthday: January 1

Death: February 11

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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Topics: Dark, Men, Enemy, Dark Forces, Unruly

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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

source: - Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

Topics: Men, Society, Outrun, Secured, Nature And Environment

Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.

Topics: Cat, Golf, Swings, Dissecting

His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

source: - Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

Topics: Mother, Ambition, Self Confidence

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.

Topics: Fear, Heart, People

...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.

source: - Ernest Jones (1990). “Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

Topics: Witty, Mean, People, Comprehending

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

Topics: Golf, Secret, Wish

[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.

source: - Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

Topics: Science, Simple, Ideas

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