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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman she will be all ears.
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
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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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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.
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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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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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Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
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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.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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