We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful… — 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
