The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — 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
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to… — 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
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — 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
“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