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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
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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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If children could, if adults knew.
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The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.
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A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
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Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
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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.
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...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
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