Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 14

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• A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

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• Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suffering, Tasks, Elements

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• Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Ideas, People

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• A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Hero, Men

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Moses and Monotheism”, p.11, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Childhood, Religion

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Community, Together

  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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• By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Aggression, Humans

  "The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".

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• In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

  Sigmund Freud

  Distance, Future, Past

  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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• It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

  Sigmund Freud

  Nature, Children, Humanity

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications”

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• Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mistake, America

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, Memories of a Psycho-analyst (1959)

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• No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Giving, Would Be

  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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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Long, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Views, Definitions, Facts

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Morality, Form, Judaism

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• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, Memories, Childhood

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

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• The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

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  Civilization, Justice, Firsts

  "The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud".

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• It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Nice, Order

  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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• Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

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  Children, Play, Creative

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• After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

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  Symbolism, Imagination, Age

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• I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Differences, Criticism

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• It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Anger, Numbers

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Animal, Law

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.37, Routledge

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• Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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

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• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Experience

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

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