Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (/ˈfrɔɪd/ FROYD; German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.
In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered ...
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Sigmund Freud #Age
If youth knew if age could.
Sigmund Freud #Alone #Happiness #Wisdom
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud #Death
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud #Dreams
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud #Experience
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud #Freedom
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud #Freedom
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud #Good
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud #Great
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud #Home
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud #Intelligence
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud #Intelligence
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud #Life
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud #Love #Work
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud #Love
One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud #Love
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud #Love
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud #Love #Work
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Sigmund Freud #Men
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud #Men #Society
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud #Men
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud #Pet #Time
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud #Religion #Strength
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud #Success
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud #Time
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.