773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

One is very crazy when in love.

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.