Sigmund Freud Quotes

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Evil, Dream

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

Freedom, Ego, Give

Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud

Destiny, Anatomy

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud

Justice, Requisite

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

Making, Progress, Books

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

Why, Wait, Pious

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud

Home, True, Nothing

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Strong, Long

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud

Place, Ends, Proper

Where id was, there ego shall be.
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

Life, Pressure, Cost

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud

Nature, May, Whatever

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
Sigmund Freud

Reality, Physical, Appears

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Experience, Act, Anxiety

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Greatest, Before, Liberty

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Long, Real

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud

America, Mistake, Yes

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud

Made, Opposition, Enmity

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

Nothing, Him, Show

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

Character, Between, Ambition

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 6, 1856

Died: September 23, 1939

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