“Our study of psychoneurotic disturbances points to a more comprehensive explanation, which includes that of Westermarck. When a wife loses her husband,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If we are to take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything dies for internal reasons – becomes inorganic… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If man must himself die, after first losing his most beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses… — 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
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