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
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
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — 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
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
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult… — 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
