“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — 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
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