Parenting Quotes by Sigmund Freud

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

— Sigmund Freud

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

— Sigmund Freud

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the…

— Sigmund Freud

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

— Sigmund Freud

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

— Sigmund Freud

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

— Sigmund Freud

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

— Sigmund Freud

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this…

— Sigmund Freud

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

— Sigmund Freud

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the…

— Sigmund Freud

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses…

— Sigmund Freud

“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

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ,…

— Sigmund Freud

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for…

— Sigmund Freud

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

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and…

— Sigmund Freud

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them…

— Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed…

— Sigmund Freud

“The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though…

— Sigmund Freud

“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a…

— Sigmund Freud