773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The communal life of human beings had... a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

If you can’t do it, give up!

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man’s life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian – an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood – the time when he was his own ideal.

I’ve been a fortunate man in life. Nothing has come easily.

We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between civilization and sexuality from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals.

When people criticise me, I know how to defend myself. But I’m powerless in the face of praise.

If this is what happens, then a transference and displacement of the psychical intensity of the individual elements has taken place; as a consequence, the difference between the texts of the dream-content and the dream-thoughts makes its appearance.