It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. — 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
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely… — 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
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image