773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Christmas is the alcoholidays.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love, and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of our love.

And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy – and if they haven’t died, they are still alive today.

That which we can’t remember, we will repeat.

Where id is, there shall ego be.

As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.

The tension between the harsh super-ego and the ego that is subjected to it, is called by us the sense of guilt; it expresses itself as a need for punishment. Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual’s dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.