Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
Sigmund Freud Quotes
There is infinitely more men who accept the hypocritical civilization that men really and truly civilized.
—Sigmund Freud
By fixing its followers a strong psychic infantilism and making them share a collective delusion, religion succeeds in sparing quantity of human beings an individual neurosis.
—Sigmund Freud
Every dream is wish-fulfillment.
—Sigmund Freud
The dream does not calculate or think; generally does not judge: it merely transform.
—Sigmund Freud
The dream is the guardian of sleep.
—Sigmund Freud
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too.
—Sigmund Freud
Not only dreams are wish fulfillments, so are hysterical attacks.
—Sigmund Freud
Envy often spoils the enjoyment of gardens and country houses.
—Sigmund Freud
Everything that promotes the development of civilization also works against war.
—Sigmund Freud
By making our enemy small, mean, contemptible, comical, we take a roundabout route to getting for ourselves the enjoyment of vanquishing him, which the third person – who has gone to no effort – endorses with his laughter.
—Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
—Sigmund Freud
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
—Sigmund Freud
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘creation.’
—Sigmund Freud
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
—Sigmund Freud