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• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

  Sigmund Freud

  Writing, Letters, Something New

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Issues, Humanity

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• We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, People, Majority

  "Moses and Monotheism".

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Support, Morality, Found

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 7, 1927.

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

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• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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• Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Culture, Cost, Heritage

  Freud, Sigmund (2014). “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hard Work, Play, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

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• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Suicide, Dying

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Enmity, Opposition

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.41, Courier Dover Publications

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• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Rejection, Perception, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.79, Routledge

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• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Tyrants, Ego, Three

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "The Anatomy of the Mental Personality" (Lecture 31), 1933.

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• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Special, Dying

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• There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Waking, Technique

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

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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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

  Sigmund Freud

  May, Consolation, Effects

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hypocrite, Matter, Sexuality

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Ego, Suffering

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• Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hatred, Christianity, Judaism

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Moses and Monotheism”, p.178, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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• Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mastery, Demand, Instinct

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