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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us. — Sigmund Freud

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. — Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. — Sigmund Freud

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

The goal of all life is death. — Sigmund Freud

All that matters is love and work. — Sigmund Freud

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — 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

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud

Pleasure principle, a psychoanalytical term coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a predecessor of Sigmund Freud — Anonymous

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want. — Nora Ephron

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 most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. — Sigmund Freud

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? — Sigmund Freud

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. — Sigmund Freud

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. — Sigmund Freud

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud

Where id is, there shall ego be — Sigmund Freud

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud

The words for much that remains mute in me — Sigmund Freud

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity. — Sigmund Freud

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. — Sigmund Freud

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. — Sigmund Freud

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud

Love and work ... work and love, that's all there is. — Sigmund Freud

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sigmund Freud

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. — Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat. — Sigmund Freud

History is just new people making old mistakes. — Sigmund Freud

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. — Sigmund Freud

All that is to live in endless song Must in life-time first be drown'd. — Sigmund Freud

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. — Sigmund Freud

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. — Sigmund Freud

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? — Sigmund Freud

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion — Sigmund Freud

As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples. — Sigmund Freud

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. — Sigmund Freud

Anatomy is destiny. — Sigmund Freud

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. — Sigmund Freud

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. — Sigmund Freud

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time? — Sigmund Freud

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you. — Sigmund Freud

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. — Sigmund Freud

The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. — Sigmund Freud

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. — Sigmund Freud

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — 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

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund 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

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. — Sigmund Freud

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud

no serious book can now be sure of surviving. — Sigmund Freud

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism. — Sigmund Freud

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be. — Sigmund Freud

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. — Sigmund Freud

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud

[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

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology. — Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity — Sigmund Freud

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — 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

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. — 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

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. — Sigmund Freud

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! — Sigmund Freud

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. — Sigmund Freud

Places are often treated like persons. — Sigmund Freud

Dreams are never concerned with trivia. — Sigmund Freud

The madman is a dreamer awake — Sigmund Freud

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — 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

The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours. — 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

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss — Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners. — Sigmund Freud

They love their delusions as they love themselves. — Sigmund Freud