Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements… — 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
The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — 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
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and… — 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 moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“According to the prevailing view human sexual life consists essentially in an endeavor to bring one's own genitals into contact with those… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Thus I must contradict you when you go on to argue that men are completely unable to do without the consolation of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke,… — 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
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — 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
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not… — 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
