114 Quotes About Freud

Nunca dominaremos completamente a natureza, e nosso organismo, ele mesmo parte dessa natureza, será sempre uma construção transitória, limitada em adequação e desemprenho.

Freud and Jung and all the rest of them published their theories, but all they did was t'invent a lot of jargon t'get people talkin'. Gave mental phenomena a little scholastic color.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

what is bad is whatever causes one to be threatened withloss of love. For fear of that loss, one must avoid it. This, too, is the reason why itmakes little difference whether one has already done the bad thing or onlyintends to do it. In either case the danger only sets in if and when the authoritydiscovers it, and in either case the authority would behave in the same way.

Psychoanalysis is the paradigmatic pseudoscience of our epoch . . . with its facile explanation of adult behavior by reference to unobservable and arbitrarily posited childhood fantasy

En la vida psíquica nada de lo una vez formado puede desaparecer jamás; todo se conserva de alguna manera y puede volver a surgir

El término cultura designa la suma de las producciones e instituciones que distancian nuestra vida de la de nuestros antecesores animales y que sirven a dos fines: proteger al hombre contra la Naturaleza y regular las relaciones de los hombres entre sí

As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We’re afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!