Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — 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
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — 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
Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through… — 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
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — 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
