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

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
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Psychoanalyst
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
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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.
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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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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.
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This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.
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Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.
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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
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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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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.
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