What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — 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