773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

As these examples show, Freud’s theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.

We serve the patient in various functions, as an authority and as a substitute for his parents, as a teacher and educator.

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.

We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things.

I suppose that romantic love was invented as a brilliant means of seduction.

In schizophrenia, the victory lies with repression.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.