Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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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."
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I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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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.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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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.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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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.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
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Now it is nothing but torture.