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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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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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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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[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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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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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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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador
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I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
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No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
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The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
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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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