Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — 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
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — 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 ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — 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
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
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
If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state… — 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
