Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. He is known as the father of psychoanalysis and is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Freud developed the theory that human behavior is the result of the interactions between the conscious and unconscious mind. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sigmund Freud on dreams, marriage, civilization.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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One is very crazy when in love.
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. — Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. — Sigmund Freud
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. — Sigmund Freud
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Dreams
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. — Sigmund Freud
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life. — Sigmund Freud
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday. — Sigmund Freud
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. — Sigmund Freud
Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers. — Sigmund Freud
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud Quotes About Marriage
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears. — Sigmund Freud
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. — Sigmund Freud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Civilization
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. — Sigmund Freud
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. — Sigmund Freud
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. — Sigmund Freud
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them. — Sigmund Freud
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. — Sigmund Freud
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.". — Sigmund Freud
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin. — Sigmund Freud
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Love
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. — Sigmund Freud
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. — Sigmund Freud
One is very crazy when in love. — Sigmund Freud
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. — Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. — Sigmund Freud
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Psychoanalysis
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. — Sigmund Freud
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? — Sigmund Freud
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it. — Sigmund Freud
[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Psychology
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. — Sigmund Freud
If it's not one thing, it's your mother. — Sigmund Freud
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 the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. — Sigmund Freud
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world. — Sigmund Freud
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites. — Sigmund Freud
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. — Sigmund Freud
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. — Sigmund Freud
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Unconscious
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud
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. — Sigmund Freud
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. — Sigmund Freud
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism. — Sigmund Freud
The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action. — Sigmund Freud
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed. — Sigmund Freud
Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically. — Sigmund Freud
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects. — Sigmund Freud
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Repression
But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id. — Sigmund Freud
I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases. — Sigmund Freud
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes About Life
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — Sigmund Freud
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. — Sigmund Freud
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you. — Sigmund Freud
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. — Sigmund Freud
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. — Sigmund Freud
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else. — Sigmund Freud
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry — Sigmund Freud
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. — Sigmund Freud
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud
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. — Sigmund Freud
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. — Sigmund Freud
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. — Sigmund Freud
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions. — Sigmund Freud
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating. — Sigmund Freud
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. — Sigmund Freud
Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge. — Sigmund Freud
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. — Sigmund Freud
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. — Sigmund Freud
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving. — Sigmund Freud
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses. — Sigmund Freud
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. — Sigmund Freud
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment. — Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Famous Quotes And Sayings
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. — Sigmund Freud
Time spent with cats is never wasted. — Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. — Sigmund Freud
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions. — Sigmund Freud
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. — Sigmund Freud
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal. — Sigmund Freud
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. — Sigmund Freud
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. — Sigmund Freud
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. — Sigmund Freud
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. — Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. — Sigmund Freud
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. — Sigmund Freud
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries. — Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. — Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud
The madman is a dreamer awake — Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. — Sigmund Freud
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure. — Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. — Sigmund Freud
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate. — Sigmund Freud
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. — Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. — Sigmund Freud
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other. — Sigmund Freud
Thought is action in rehearsal. — Sigmund Freud
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. — Sigmund Freud
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. — Sigmund Freud
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. — Sigmund Freud
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else. — Sigmund Freud
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud
The ego is not master in its own house. — Sigmund Freud
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. — Sigmund Freud
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment. — Sigmund Freud
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. — Sigmund Freud
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. — Sigmund Freud
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture. — Sigmund Freud
Life Lessons by Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud taught that understanding the unconscious mind is essential for achieving a healthy and balanced life.
He believed that repressed emotions and desires can manifest in unhealthy ways, and that it is important to confront and accept them in order to move forward.
Freud also emphasized the importance of self-awareness, and that understanding one's own motivations and desires is key to personal growth and development.
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