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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know the work of Eros is precisely this.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
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In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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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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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
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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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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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Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
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