Sigismund Schlomo Freud, popularly known as Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who lived from 1856 to 1939. He is famous as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna and later on became a practicing neurologist within Vienna. However, it was not as a neurologist that Freud became globally renowned. He gained recognition as the founder of psychoanalysis, a treatment for mental or emotional problems through talks between the therapist and patient. Freud was responsible for some of the path-breaking theories in psychology like ‘Ego’, ‘Alter Ego’ and also introduced the concept of ‘Oedipus Complex’. Most of what is studied in the field of psychology owes a lot to the findings of Freud and the books that he had written are still considered among the best to have ever been written on the subject. Freud wrote number of books throughout a career that spanned several decades and his most famous work remains ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’. His other famous works include ‘The Ego and the Id’, ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’, ‘Group Psychology’ and ‘The Analysis of the Ego and The Future of an Illusion’ among others. His books and writings covered number of subjects and viewpoints. His books, thoughts and writings still have a large readership. Here are some of Sigmund Freud’s most famous quotes which have been scanned through his vast sea of writings and books.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
Sigmund Freud
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
Sigmund Freud
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
Sigmund Freud
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.
Sigmund Freud
It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
Sigmund Freud
What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).
We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.
All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.
Sigmund Freud
Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
Sigmund Freud
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
Sigmund Freud
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
Sigmund Freud
The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.
Sigmund Freud
Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]
Sigmund Freud
According to the prevailing view human sexual life consists essentially in an endeavor to bring one's own genitals into contact with those of someone of the opposite sex.
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.
Sigmund Freud
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
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