773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.

In inconstient, nimic nu ia sfarsit, nu trece, nu se uita

We avoid the familiar reproach that we base our constructions of mental life on pathological findings; for dreams are regular events in the life of a normal person, however much their characteristics may differ from the productions of our waking life.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

Psychoanalytic investigation of the individual teaches with especial emphasis that god is in every case modelled after the father and that our personal relation to god is dependent upon our relation to our physical, fluctuating and changing with him, and that god at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Aber wenn das menschliche Schuldgefühl auf die Tötung des Urvaters zurückgeht, das war doch ein Fall von 'Reue', und damals soll der Voraussetzung nach Gewissen und Schuldgefühl vor der Tat nicht bestanden haben? Woher kam in diesem Fall die Reue?

Cualquiera que despierto se comportase como lo hiciera en sueños sería tomado por loco.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

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