Sigmund Freud

Quotes

• “Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular way...”
• “Whether or not we can blame Freud personally, his failure to question society itself was responsible for massive confusi...”
• “The idea that different aspects of visual perception might be handled in separate areas of the brain was predicted by Fr...”
• “Cruel though it may sound, we must see to it that the patient's suffering, to a degree that is in some way or other effe...”
• “Whatever you call it, there is a struggle in the universe between good and evil. Now not only is that struggle structure...”
• “What hope there is derives from Freud's assumption that human nature is not so much a hierarchy of high-low, and good-ba...”
• “One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the loco...”
• “In the early twentieth century the concepts of the preconscious and unconscious were made widely popular, especially in ...”
• “But [William] Glen [a distinguished geologist and historian of science at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo P...”
• “As mentioned by Stephen Jay Gould, in the essay collection book: "Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History...”
• “I differ from Freud in that I think that most dreams are neither obscure nor bowdlerized, but rather that they are trans...”
• “Also quoted as, "Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake." in Memories of a Psycho-analyst, ch.9 (1959) by Erne...”
• “If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do f...”
• “Psychology professor Alan C. Elms stated in the article "Apocryphal Freud: Sigmund Freud's Most Famous 'Quotations' and ...”
• “The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the...”
• “Translated by Gertrud Meili-Dworetzki with the cooperation of Katherine Jones in the German version of Jones book: Das L...”
• “Freud captured the imagination of a whole continent and civilization for a good reason. Though on the surface inconsiste...”
• “But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefo...”
• “At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature...”
• “Yes, you hate me. But didn't I try to atone? If I'd been a real Nazi I'd have chosen Jung, nicht wahr? But I chose Freud...”
• “Each child makes "internal models" that help them predict their Imprimers' reactions... as an "internalized" system of v...”
• “A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sex...”
• “A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyr...”
• “Many aspects of Freudian theory are indeed out of date, and they should be: Freud died in 1939, and he has been slow to ...”
• “The third great revolution, the Freudian revolution of Vienna 1900, revealed that we do not consciously control our own ...”
• “(Q: In "When Women Love Men" every woman who is sexually repressed would like to break those taboos and simply be sexual...”
• “We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression … We see, however that we have two ki...”
• “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessl...”
• “Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we ...”
• “It is now clear that Freud was correct in positing the unconscious mind develops before the conscious and that the early...”
• “I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament noth...”
• “The two deepest thinkers on sex in the twentieth century are Sigmund Freud and D.H. Lawrence. Their reputations as radic...”
• “I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter w...”
• “Letter number 80 to James Jackson Putnam, March 30, 1914, in James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters between Pu...”
• “Ich bin nämlich gar kein Mann der Wissenschaft, kein Beobachter, kein Experimentator, kein Denker. Ich bin nichts als ei...”
• “John F. Kihlstrom, quoted in Antonio de Nicolas, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Aditi Banerjee (eds.) (2007), Invading the Sacr...”
• “While the implications of Darwin's views were threatening and unsettling, they were not quite so directly abrasive, not ...”
• “When Freud comments on the shocking disparity between State-ethics and private ethics - and his observations on this poi...”
• “Analysis Terminable and Interminable, sect. 5 (1937); reprinted in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 23 (ed. James ...”
• “In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic e...”
• “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power...”
• “Perhaps the last cultural fad one could still argue against was Karl Marx. But Freud - or Rawls? To argue against such p...”
• “Quote by André Breton, initiator of French Surrealism, from the first Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924; The Abridged Dicti...”
• “A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pl...”
• “Letter to Martha Bernays, after receiving a travel grant he had been having dreams of receiving (20 June 1885). The fina...”
• “According to Freud, our best and highest aspirations are merely symptoms of neurosis. He defines genius as nothing more ...”
• “Analytic therapy is thus a form of re-education; Freud specifically called it that. It is re-education so far as it elim...”
• “I believe Freud was talking about something real, though perhaps his ideas, taken literally, lead to absurdity - for his...”
• “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 y...”
• “The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile ...”