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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
— Ross Macdonald
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
— Lucian Freud
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
— Sigmund Freud
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
— Salvador Dali
I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
— Sigmund Freud
The process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant.
— Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
— Sigmund Freud
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
— Sigmund Freud
One is very crazy when in love.
— Sigmund Freud
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
— Sigmund Freud
Pleasure principle, a psychoanalytical term coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a predecessor of Sigmund Freud
— Anonymous
Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
— Sigmund Freud
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
— Anna Freud
It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
— Clement Freud
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
— Chaim Potok
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
— Anna Freud
The madman is a dreamer awake
— Sigmund Freud
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
— Sigmund Freud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
— Sigmund Freud
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
— Sigmund Freud
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
— Sigmund Freud
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
— Sigmund Freud
While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.
— Eugenie Brinkema
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
— Anna Freud
Love and work ... work and love, that's all there is.
— Sigmund Freud
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
— Clement Freud
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
— Sigmund Freud
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
— Sigmund Freud
Dreams are never concerned with trivia.
— Sigmund Freud
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
— Sigmund Freud
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
— Sigmund Freud
Places are often treated like persons.
— Sigmund Freud
If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
— Sigmund Freud
Without love we fall ill.
— Sigmund Freud
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
— Sigmund Freud
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
— Peter Gay
Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.
— Matthew Freud
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
— Sigmund Freud
Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
— Sigmund Freud
no serious book can now be sure of surviving.
— Sigmund Freud
Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick.
— Leah Raeder
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
— Sigmund Freud
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
— Esther Freud
Freud was just a novelist.
— Peter Ackroyd
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my dayuntil I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud
Where id was, there ego shall be.
— Sigmund Freud
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
— Sigmund Freud
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
— Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
— Siri Hustvedt
Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.
— Sigmund Freud
What's wrong with your father? Huh? Can't he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the baby Freud?
— Benjamin R. Smith
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
— Bella Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
— Sigmund Freud
Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life.
— Sigmund Freud
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
— Sigmund Freud
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
— Sigmund Freud
Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.
— Sigmund Freud
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
— Lucian Freud
They love their delusions as they love themselves.
— Sigmund Freud
We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.
— Sigmund Freud
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
— Sigmund Freud
The dream is not a somatic but a psychic phenomenon. You appreciate the significance
— Sigmund Freud
Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
— Clement Freud
The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
— Sigmund Freud
Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis
— Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
— Sigmund Freud
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
— Sigmund Freud
Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
— Sigmund Freud
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