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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
Reveal
Hidden
Structure
Broken
Crystals
Structures

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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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After all, we did not invent symbolism it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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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 impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
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A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
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We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
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Without love we fall ill.
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