Sigmund Freud Quotes

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Sigmund Freud

• Reflection
• Instinct
• Taboo
• Associative Paths

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Find
  • Instinct
  • Notes

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • Reflection
  • September

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• So today, let me say: Sisters and brothers of India - my confidence in what our nations can achieve together is rooted in the values we share. For we may have our different histories and speak different languages, but when we look at each other, we see a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • May
  • Together

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection

• Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Experience
  • Reflection

• The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Song
  • Feeling

• We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Work
  • Reflection

• If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

  

  Jim Wallis
  • God
  • History
  • Reflection

• On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Time
  • Reflection

• We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Time
  • Music
  • Reflection

• Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

  

  David Grann
  • Reflection

• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Instinct
  • Forgets
  • Burns

• Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Control
  • Person

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • History
  • Faith
  • Action

• This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reflection
  • Instinct
  • Taboo