Quotes from Sigmund Freud

We shall tell ourselves that it would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent Providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

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

A normal dream stands, as it were, on two feet, one of which derives from the actual nature of the occasion for it, the other on a childhood event with serious consequences.

the dream is not a somatic but a psychic phenomenon. You appreciate the significance

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But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society

the dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

Happiness is the belated fulfilment of a prehistoric wish. For this reason wealth brings so little happiness. Money was not a childhood wish.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.

La consciencia de la culpabilidad y el sentimiento del deber serían las dos propiedades características del animal gregario.

La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.

Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.

We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.

At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.

This reliance on puns gives Freud an interpretative freedom which might often be considered licence.

The thought suggests itself that a psychical power is operative in the dream-work which on the one hand strips the psychically valuable elements of their intensity, and on the other creates new values by way of over-determination out of elements of low value; it is the new values that then reach the dream-content.

most people report dreaming principally in visual images. Freud, however, assumes that dreams start from a dream-thought that is best expressed in words and translate it into a picture-language which is intellectually inferior because it cannot convey logical connections; the analyst restores to the dream its verbal character.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.