I leave you the best phrases of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist who developed psychoanalysis and the theories of the ego, libido, and it, me and superego. He is considered one of the most influential people in the scientific world, as well as one of the most controversial for the content of his theories and ideas.
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-Being totally honest with yourself is a good exercise.
-The flowers are a break for the eyes. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
-When inspiration doesn't come to me, I go halfway to find it.
-Our vulnerabilities come our strengths.
-There is no starting point if you don't know where to go.
-I cannot think of any childhood need as strong as the need for parental protection.
-Each one of us has everyone as mortals except himself.
-There are two ways to be happy in this life, one is to be an idiot and the other to be.
-The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
-Remembering is the best way to forget.
-Time spent with cats is never wasted.
-One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will surprise you as the most beautiful.
-One is the owner of what is silent and a slave to what he speaks.
-If you want to live, prepare to die.
-The freedom of the individual is not a gift of civilization. It was older before there was any civilization.
-A man who has been the undisputed favorite of his mother maintains during his life the feeling of a conqueror.
-The mad man is a daydreamer.
-Dreams are often deepest when they seem craziest.
-I have been a lucky man in life: nothing was easy for me.
-Each one of us has everyone as mortals except himself.
-There are no errors.
-The price we pay for our advanced civilization is a loss of happiness through the intensification of guilt.
-Love and work are the pillars of our humanity.
-The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with 70% of its volume on water.
-The unconscious of a human being can react to that of another without going through the conscious.
-We will all die, but our works will remain.
-Religion is an illusion and derives its strength from the fact that it falls into our instinctual desires.
-The words have a magical power. They can bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
-Unxpressed emotions never die. They are buried alive and come out later in worse ways.
-Anyone who awake behaved as he did in dreams would be taken for mad.
-The voice of the intellect is soft, but it does not rest until it has gained an ear.
-He who knows how to wait does not need to make concessions.
-The ego does not own its own house.
-When someone abuses me, I can defend myself, but against flattery I am defenseless.
-Is anatomy destiny.
-Civilization began the first moment a pissed-off man threw a word instead of a rock.
-If two individuals always agree on everything, I can assure you that one of the two thinks for both of them.
-Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
-Smoking is essential if one has nothing to kiss.
-We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Whoever thinks of failure has already failed before trying; Who thinks about winning, takes a step forward.
-Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.
-The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the chains of matter.
-Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while resting on sofas.
-It is inherent to the philosopher to be able to speculate on all things.
-Men are more moral than they think and much more immoral than they can imagine.
-From mistake to mistake the complete truth is discovered.
-The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and therefore the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
-For the first time the child must exchange pleasure for social dignity.
-The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
-The analogies, it is true, do not decide anything, but they can make one feel more at home.
-The goal of life is death.
-Where does a thought go when it is forgotten?
-Just as no one can be forced to believe, no one can be forced to disbelief.
- It could be said of psychoanalysis that if you give the little finger you will soon have the whole hand.
-Not everything depends on wishes, but still, I have decided to try to carry out my wishes.
-The virtuous man is content to dream what the wicked does in real life.
-Children are completely selfish; they feel their needs intensely and struggle hard to satisfy them.
-Fear is a suffering that produces the expectation of evil.
-Modern science has not yet produced a soothing medicine as effective as a few kind words.
-The more accessible the fruits of knowledge, the more widespread is the decline of religious beliefs.
-What progress we have made. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are happy to burn my books.
-In matters of sexuality, we are currently, all of us, sick or healthy, nothing more than hypocrites.
-One is very crazy when in love.
-The tendency to aggression is innate, independent, an instinctive disposition in a man. It is a powerful obstacle to culture.
-The best is the enemy of the good.
-Only one's own experience makes a man wise.
-Religious doctrines are illusions that do not admit evidence and no one can be forced to consider them as true or believe in them.
-A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
-No, our science is not an illusion. But it would be an illusion to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
-A man should not fight to eliminate his complexes, but come into agreement with them: they are legitimately those who direct his behavior in the world.
-Most people don't really want freedom, because freedom implies responsibility and most people fear responsibility.
-The one hundred percent truth is as rare as one hundred percent alcohol.
-The first requirement of civilization is justice.
-All joke, in the background, conceals a truth.
-America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake.
-Civilization is permanently threatened by disintegration due to the primary hostility of man.
-The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of creation.
-The great question that has never been answered and that I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research of the human soul is, what does a woman want?
-The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
-Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-The fear of guns is a sign of sexual retardation and emotional maturity.
-Illusions are entrusted to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure. We must therefore accept them without complaint when they collide with the reality in which they are shattered.
-I have found few good things about humans in general. From my experience, most of them are rubbish, it doesn't matter if they publicly subscribe to an ethical doctrine or not. It is something you cannot say very loud or even think.
-Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
-Immorality, no less than morality, has always found support in religion.
-The first notions of sexuality appear in the infant.
-You have to be humble, keep personal preferences and antipathies deep down, if you want to discover the realities of the world. (General introduction to psychoanalysis).
-Dreams can be so declared: They are hidden realizations of repressed desires.
-What is devoid of meaning is as difficult for us to retain as what is confused or disorderly. (The interpretation of dreams).
-The dream is not a somatic phenomenon but a psychic phenomenon.
-The crowd is a docile herd incapable of living without a master.
-The subject involves thoughts of which he knows nothing; that is, as an endopsychic perception of the repressed.
-Obsessive neurosis shows, much more clearly than hysteria, how the factors that make up psychoneuroses should not be sought in current sexual life, but in childhood.
- Serious obsessive neurotics go to psychoanalytic treatment in much fewer numbers than hysterics.
-As for religious needs, I consider irrefutable its derivation from child helplessness and nostalgia for the father
-There where love awakens, the self dies, despot, gloomy.
-The dream has a wonderful poetry, an exact allegorical faculty, an incomparable humor and a delicious irony.
-My daughter was always a very special situation for everyone. She was the youngest, the least beautiful, and therefore; always the most competitive.
-My daughter suffered from depression, from eating disorders and that was what convinced her to enter my world. It was something that we negotiated together.
-A civilization that leaves such a large number of its participants dissatisfied and leads them to revolt, neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
-My life with my wife was always very conventional. We had a solid sex life that produced children but was never an inspiration to me.
-Sadism is fine in its place, but must be directed towards appropriate ends.
-The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
-The devout believers are safeguarded to a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic diseases; their acceptance of universal neurosis saves them the task of building a personal one.
- At heart, God is nothing more than an exalted father.
-In the long run, nothing can support reason and experience, and the contradiction that religion offers to both is palpable.
-Thought is an experimental deal with small amounts of energy, much like a general moves miniature figures on a map before putting his troops into action.
-America is the greatest experiment the world has seen… but, I'm afraid, it will not be a success.
-A child in his greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of his parents with his brothers and sisters; and he realizes that all his affection is lavished on him once more each time his anxiety awakens when he falls ill.
-By representing us a wish fulfilled, the dream certainly takes us to the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed in the likeness of that past by indestructible desire.
-Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural need for it. However, civilization could not do without it.
-The unconscious is the largest circle that includes within itself the smallest circle of the conscious; Every conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, while the unconscious can stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity.
-Speaking properly, the unconscious is the true psychic; its inner nature is as unknown to us as the reality of the outer world, and it is as impartially reported to us through the data of consciousness as the outer world is through the indications of our sense organs.
-We are so constituted that we can only obtain intense pleasure from the contrast, and very little from the condition itself.
-The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for all his other modes of reaction in life.
-It is always possible to unite a considerable number of people in love, as long as there are other people who are left to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
-Not all men deserve to be loved.
-A man like me cannot live without a hobby horse, a consuming passion; in Schiller's words, a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits.