Sigmund Freud Quotes & Quotations

Sigmund Freud Quotes

» Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.''

» Where id was, there shall ego be.

» The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

» The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

» The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

» The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

» It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

» Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

» The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

» I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

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