773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.

The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Everyone owes nature a death.