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Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
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
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
Sigmund Freud
“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.”
Sigmund Freud
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
Sigmund Freud
“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.”
Sigmund Freud
“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Sigmund Freud
“Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.”
Sigmund Freud
“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.”
Sigmund Freud
“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
Sigmund Freud
