Freud Quotes

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less ...

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a stat...

The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...

We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

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

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ...

The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimate...

Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinc...

It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the pur...

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the w...

The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have...

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a lang...

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive s...

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individua...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is...

The field of human relations in Freud’s sense is similar to the market—it is an exchange of satisfac...

Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoningof the earth by the nineteenth-century h...

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired ob...

The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies i...

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was ...

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear...

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. Al...

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men ...

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrat...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...