Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them?… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in… — 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
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything,… — 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
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