Sigmund Freud
Austria
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me
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
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another
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
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror
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
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays