We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty… — 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
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
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. — 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
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — 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