773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.

Não existe uma regra de ouro que se aplique a todos: todo homem tem de descobrir por si mesmo de que modo específico ele pode ser salvo

We may say that the patient does not remember anything at all of what he has forgotten and repressed, but rather acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he repeats it, without of course being aware of the fact that he is repeating it.