Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist

Lived from: 1856 - 1939

Category: Psychologists Country: FlagAustria

Born: 6 may 1856 Died: 23 september 1939

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  • The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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  • The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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  • The ego is not master in its own house.
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  • The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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  • The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
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  • The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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  • The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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  • The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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  • The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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  • The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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  • We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
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  • We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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  • We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.
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  • We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
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  • What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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  • Where id was, there shall ego be.
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  • Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
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