Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

— Sigmund Freud

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

— Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

— Sigmund Freud

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

— Sigmund Freud

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on… Turn your eyes inward, look into your…

— Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

— Sigmund Freud

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that…

— Sigmund Freud

“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with…

— Sigmund Freud

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly…

— Sigmund Freud

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although…

— Sigmund Freud

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions…

— Sigmund Freud

“Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting…

— Sigmund Freud

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the…

— Sigmund Freud

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the…

— Sigmund Freud

Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external…

— Sigmund Freud

“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology.…

— Sigmund Freud

“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley…

— Sigmund Freud

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…

— Sigmund Freud

“But hypnotism had been of immense help in the cathartic treatment, by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within…

— Sigmund Freud