Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
