Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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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.
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Now it is nothing but torture.
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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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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
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Christmas is the alcoholidays.
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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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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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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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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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.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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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 necessites.
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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.
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I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
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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.