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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

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
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Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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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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I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
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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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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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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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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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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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[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
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