Objects Quotes by Sigmund Freud

10 Objects quotes by Sigmund Freud

When Freud turns his analytical eye to everyday items, he reveals how objects become mirrors of our inner conflicts. This brief set captures his knack for turning the mundane into a window on the unconscious.

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Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and…

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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their…

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When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego…

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This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the…

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The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a…

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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state…

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As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,…

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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the…

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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill,…

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Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden…

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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

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It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the…

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“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,…

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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

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