And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Unexpected emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous… — 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
