Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — 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
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 are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it… — 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
