Sigmund Freud Quotes & Quotations

Sigmund Freud Quotes

» I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

» Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

» I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

» Anatomy is destiny.

» The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

» Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

» Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

» 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.

» The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

» One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''

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