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
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — 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
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill,… — 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
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a… — 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