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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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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
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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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I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible it has become my metier.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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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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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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Without love we fall ill.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
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It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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