I leave you more than 100 quotes of Sigmund Freud , About love, psychology, life, dreams, women, the unconscious and much more.
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1-Being totally honest with yourself is a good exercise.
2-Flowers are a break for the eyes. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
3-When inspiration does not come to me, I do half a way to find it.
4-Our strengths come from our vulnerabilities.
5-There is no starting point if you do not know where to go.
6-I can not think of any need of childhood as strong as the need for parental protection.
7-There are two ways to be happy in this life, one is to become the idiot and the other to be.
8-The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
9-Each of us has everyone as mortal except himself.
10-Remembering is the best way to forget.
11-Time spent with cats is never wasted.
12-A day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will surprise you as the most beautiful.
13-One is master of what is silent and slave of what he speaks.
14-If you want to live, prepare to die.
15-The freedom of the individual is not a gift of civilization. He was older before any civilization.
16 - A man who has been the undisputed favorite of his mother maintains during his life the feeling of a conqueror.
17-The price we pay for our advanced civilization is a loss of happiness through the intensification of guilt.
18-The crazy man is a daydreamer.
19-Dreams are often deeper when they seem more insane.
20-I have been a lucky man in life: nothing was easy for me.
Freud and his daughter Anna
21-Each of us has all as mortals minus himself.
22-There are no mistakes.
23-Love and work are the pillars of our humanity.
24-Unexpressed emotions never die. They are buried alive and depart later in worse forms.
25-Anyone who awakened behaved as he did in dreams would be taken by madman.
26-The voice of the intellect is soft, but it does not rest until it has gained an ear.
27-He who knows how to wait need not make concessions.
28-The ego does not own its own house.
29-When someone abuses me, he can defend me, but against flattery I am defenseless.
30-Anatomy is destiny.
31-Civilization began the first moment when a pissed-off man threw a word instead of a rock.
32. If two individuals are always in agreement on everything, I can assure that one of the two thinks for both.
33-Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
34-Smoking is essential if you have nothing to kiss.
35-We are never as helpless against suffering as when we love.
36-Who thinks of failure, already failed before trying; Who thinks about winning, takes a step forward.
37-Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.
38. Sleep is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the chains of matter.
39-Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while resting on couches.
40-It is proper for the philosopher to be able to speculate about all things.
41. Men are more moral than they think and much more immoral than you can imagine.
42-From error to error the full truth is discovered.
43-The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and therefore the source and prototype of the affection of anxiety.
44. For the first time the child should exchange pleasure for social dignity.
45-He who has eyes to see and ears to hear can convince themselves that no mortal can keep a secret. If your lips are silent, they chatter with your fingers; Betrayal oozes them through all their pores.
46. The interpretation of dreams is the real way to the knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
47-Analogies, it is true, do not decide anything, but they can make you feel more at home.
48-The goal of life is death.
49-Where does a thought go when it is forgotten?
50-Just as no one can be forced to believe, no one can be forced into unbelief.
51-It could be said of psychoanalysis that if you give the little finger you will have the whole hand.
52-Not everything depends on the wishes, but still, I have decided to try to carry out my desires.
53-The virtuous man is content to dream what the wicked does in real life.
54. Children are completely selfish; Feel their needs intensely and struggle rudely to satisfy them.
55-Fear is a suffering that produces the expectation of an evil.
57-The more accessible the fruits of knowledge, the more widespread is the decline of religious beliefs.
-What progress have we made. In the Middle Ages I would have been burned. Now they are happy to burn my books.
59-In matters of sexuality, we are, all of us, sick or healthy, nothing more than hypocrites.
60-One is very crazy when he is in love.
61. The tendency to aggression is innate, independent, an instinctive disposition in a man. It constitutes a powerful obstacle to culture.
62-In mourning the world has become poor and empty; In melancholy the ego in itself.
63-The best is an enemy of the good.
64. Only one's experience makes man wise.
65-Religious doctrines are illusions that do not admit evidence and no one can be forced to consider them as true or to believe in them.
66-A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
"No, our science is not an illusion. But it would be an illusion to suppose that what science can not give us can be obtained elsewhere.
68. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to enter into agreement with them: they are legitimately those who direct their behaviors in the world.
69-Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom implies responsibility and most people fear responsibility.
"Truth to the one hundred percent is as rare as alcohol to one hundred percent."
71-The mind is like an iceberg, floats with 70% of its volume on water.
72. The first requirement of civilization is justice.
73-Every joke, in the background, conceals a truth.
74-America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake.
75. Civilization is permanently threatened by disintegration due to the primary hostility of man.
76-The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of creation.
77-The unconscious of a human being can react to that of another without going through the conscious.
78-We will all die, but our deeds will remain.
79-The great question that has never been answered and which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research of the human soul is, what does a woman want?
80-The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
81. Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
82. Fear of guns is a sign of sexual retardation and emotional maturity.
83-Illusions are entrusted to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy the pleasure. We must, therefore, accept them without complaints when they collide against the reality in which they are shattered.
"I've found few good things about humans in general. From my experience, most are rubbish, no matter if they subscribe publicly to an ethical doctrine or not. It's something you can not say too loudly or even think about.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
86. Immorality, no less than morality, has always found support in religion.
87. The first notions of sexuality appear in the infant.
88-It is necessary to be humble, to keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if you want to discover the realities of the world. (General introduction to psychoanalysis).
89. Dreams can be thus declared: They are hidden realizations of repressed desires.
90-If we put the words of a verse in an arbitrary order, it will be very difficult for us to keep it in our memory. "Well ordered and in logical succession, words are helped to others, and full meaning is easily remembered for a long time. The devoid of meaning is as difficult to retain as confusing or disorderly. (The interpretation of dreams).
91. The totality of the dream sources can be divided into four species; Division that has also served as a basis for classifying dreams: 1. External sensory stimulation (objective). 2. Internal (subjective) sensory stimulation. 3. Somatic stimulus internal (organic). 4. Sources of purely psychic stimulus. (The interpretation of dreams).
92. While during the vigil he thinks and represents the soul in verbal images and through language, in the dream he thinks and represents in true sensory images. (The interpretation of dreams).
93. Sleep is not a somatic phenomenon but a psychic phenomenon.
94. The multitude is a docile flock incapable of living without a master.
95-The subject involves thoughts of those who know nothing; That is, as an endopsychic perception of the repressed.
96. Along with obsessive desire there is an obsessive fear intimately bound up with it. Whenever the subject thinks something related to his desire, there arises in him the fear that something terrible will happen, and this something already has a characteristic indeterminacy concomitant always to the manifestations of the neurosis.
97. Obsessive neurosis shows, much more clearly than hysteria, how the factors that integrate the psychoneurosis should not be sought in the current sexual life, but in the infantile one.
98. Serious obsessional neurotics resort to psychoanalytic treatment in much smaller numbers than hysterical ones.
99. Regarding the religious needs, I consider irrefutable its derivation from the children's helplessness and the nostalgia for the priest
100-The current sexual life of obsessive neurotics may often seem like a superficial observer, quite normal, because it often offers fewer pathogenic factors and fewer abnormalities than our patient.
-For where love awakens, the self dies, despot, somber.
-The dream possesses a wonderful poetry, an exact allegorical faculty, an incomparable humor and a delicious irony.
103- My daughter was always a very special situation for everyone. She was the youngest, the least beautiful, and therefore; Always the most competitive.
"My daughter suffered from depression, from eating disorders, and that was what convinced her to go into my world. It was something we negotiated together.
105. A civilization that leaves so many of its participants unsatisfied and leads them to revolt, neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
My life with my wife was always very conventional. We had a solid sex life that produced children but it was never an inspiration to me.
Sadism is well in its place, but it must be directed toward proper ends.
108. The psychoanalysis of the neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
109. If one wishes to form a true estimate of the complete greatness of religion, one must take into account what he commits himself to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, assures them the protection and ultimate happiness in the midst of the changing vicissitudes of life, and guides their thoughts and movements through precepts that are backed by the full force of their authority.
Religion is an illusion and derives its strength from the fact that it falls into our instinctual desires.
111. No one who, like me, evokes the most evil of the half-tamed demons who inhabit the human breast, and tries to fight with them, can expect to leave the fight unharmed.
112. Devout believers are safeguarded to a great degree against the risk of certain neurotic diseases; Their acceptance of universal neurosis saves them the task of building a personal.
113. Deep down, God is just an exalted father.
In the long run, nothing can support reason and experience, and the contradiction that religion offers to both is palpable.
115. Thought is an experimental deal with small amounts of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures on a map before putting his troops into action.
Words have magical power. They can bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair; They can transfer the knowledge of the teacher to the student; The words allow the speaker to influence his audience and dictate his decisions. Words are able to arouse the strongest emotions and drive the actions of all men.
117- The victorious man is content himself by dreaming those things that the bad man does in life.
"America is the greatest experiment the world has ever seen... but, I'm afraid, it's not going to be a success.
There is a psychological technique that makes it possible to interpret dreams, and; If that procedure is used, each dream is revealed as a psychic structure that has meaning and can be inserted into an assignable point in the mental activities of awakening life.
120- A child in his greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of his parents with his brothers and sisters; And realizes that all his affection is lavished once more each time he awakens his anxiety to fall ill. He has now discovered a means of attracting the love of his parents and will make use of that medium as soon as he has the necessary psychic material at his disposal to produce a disease.
"By the way, the old belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing a wish fulfilled, the dream certainly leads to the future; But this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has formed in the likeness of that past by the indestructible desire.
122. Beauty has no obvious use; Nor is there any clear cultural need for it. However, civilization could not do without it.
The unconscious is the largest circle that includes within itself the smallest circle of the conscious; All conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, while the unconscious can stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity.
Speaking properly, the unconscious is the true psychic; Its inner nature is as unknown to us as the reality of the outer world, and is so impartially reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
We are so constituted that we can only obtain intense pleasure from the contrast, and very little from the condition itself.
126. The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for all his other modes of reaction in life.
127- It is always possible to unite a considerable number of people in love, as long as there are others who have come to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Sexual desires about the mother that become more intense than the father's are perceived as an obstacle to him; This gives rise to the Oedipus complex.
Not all men deserve to be loved.
A man like me can not live without a hobby horse, a consuming passion; In the words of Schiller, a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no bounds.