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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible it has become my metier.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.
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Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.
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A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.
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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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Without love we fall ill.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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