Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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.
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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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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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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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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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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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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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.
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.
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Now it is nothing but torture.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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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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Christmas is the alcoholidays.
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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.