The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on… Turn your eyes inward, look into your… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley of dream contents, examples of which I need scarcely adduce. Their strangeness quite disappears when we resolve not to place them on a level with the objects of perception as known to us when awake, but to remember… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
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
“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 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, uncertain in its results, is given up, but only in order to gain in the new way an assured pleasure coming later. But the end psychic impression made by this substitution has been so powerful that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
