This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — 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
