Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

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.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
   
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
   
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The goal of all life is death.
   
The ego is not master in its own house.
   
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
   
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
   
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

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

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
   
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
   
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
   
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
   
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
   
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
 
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
   
One is very crazy when in love.

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