773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.