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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
Freud
Writing
Love
Writers
Fame
Wealth
Write
Power
Women

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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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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I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.
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Without love we fall ill.
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The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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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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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
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