Pleasure Principle Quotes by Sigmund Freud

9 Pleasure Principle quotes by Sigmund Freud

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Our drives often whisper louder than reason. Freud's nine brief statements distill his theories on pleasure, giving you a quick, scholarly glimpse into the forces that shape behavior.

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The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',…

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The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in…

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There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it…

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not -…

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It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over…

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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental…

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In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by…

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It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness…

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“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…

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I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

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“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.”

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“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether…

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We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg…

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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

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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…

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It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the…

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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

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“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,…

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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

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