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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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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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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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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
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A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
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The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
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The goal of all life is death
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The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.
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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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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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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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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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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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