Sigmund Freud Quotes About Psychology

Quotes about: Psychology

• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

• If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Psychology, Pessimistic

• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

• Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

  Sigmund Freud

  Maturity, Psychology, Mature

• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

• The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Women, Dark, Psychology

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

• In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

• 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. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Passion, Men

  Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess (1957). “The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902”

• The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Ideas, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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