Quotes from Sigmund Freud

A joke will allow us to exploit something ridiculous in our enemy which we could not bring forward openly or consciously.

Desde que superamos o erro de achar que nosso habitual esquecimento significa uma destruição do traço mnemônico, tendemos à suposição contrária de que na vida psíquica nada que uma vez se formou pode acabar, de que tudo é preservado de alguma maneira e poder ser trazido novamente à luz em circunstâncias adequadas, mediante uma regressão de largo alcance, por exemplo.

EÅŸti st?pânul a ceea ce nu spui ÅŸi sclavul a ceea ce vorbeÅŸti

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.

Geometria este ?tiin?a care trage concluzii corecte din figuri incorecte

Unexpressed emotions will never die They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. -Sigmund Freud' From: A Silent Patient

There is far less freedom and arbitrariness in mental life, however, than we are inclined to assume - there may even be none at all.

The desires which are realized in dreams are left over from the day or, as a rule, the day previous, and the feeling has become intently emphasized and fixed during the day thoughts. Accidental and indifferent matters, or what must appear so to the child, find no acceptance in the contents of the dream.

They dream that they are already up, that they are washing, or already in school, at the office, etc., where they ought to be at a given time. The night before an intended journey one not infrequently dreams that one has already arrived at the destination; before going to a play or to a party the dream not infrequently anticipates, in impatience, as it were, the expected pleasure.

I am finding it very difficult; it is almost beyond my powers of presentation; the paper will probably be intelligible to no one outside our immediate circle. How bungled our reproductions are, how wretchedly we dissect the great art works of psychic nature! Unfortunately this paper in turn is becoming too bulky. It just pours out of me, and even so it's inadequate, incomplete and therefore untrue. A wretched business.

The dream does never trouble itself about things which are not deserving of our concern during the day, and trivialities which do not trouble us during the day have no power to pursue us whilst asleep.

O sofrer nos ameaça a partir de três lados: do próprio corpo, que fadado ao declínio e à dissolução, não pode sequer dispensar a dor e o medo, como sinais de advertência; e, por fim, das relações com os outros seres humanos.

Thus we may perhaps be forced to become reconciled to the idea that it is quite impossible to adjust the claims of the sexual instinct to the demands of civilization; that in consequence of its cultural development renunciation and suffering, as well as the danger of extinction in the remotest future, cannot be avoided by the human race.

Nietzsche had more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live.

We may succeed in provisionally terminating the sum of energy of our waking thoughts by deciding to go to sleep. But we do not always succeed in accomplishing it, or in accomplishing it perfectly. Unsolved problems, harassing cares, overwhelming impressions continue the thinking activity even during sleep, maintaining psychic processes in the system which we have termed the foreconscious.

What happens is that the affect left out when the obsessional idea is perceived appears in a different place. The super-ego behaves as though repression had not occurred and as though it knew the real wording and full affective character of the aggressive impulse, and it treats the ego accordingly.

The theory of the anxiety belongs to the psychology of the neuroses. I would say that the anxiety in the dream is an anxiety problem and not a dream problem.

Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.

Eitington, whom I met in Florence, is now here and will probably visit me soon to give me detailed impressions of Amsterdam. He seems to have taken up with some woman again. Such practice is a deterrent from theory. When I have totally overcome my libido (in the common sense), I shall undertake to write a 'Love-life of Mankind'.

Um rosário de censuras a outras pessoas leva-nos a suspeitar da existência de um rosário de autocensuras de conteúdo idêntico.

La théorie c'est bon, mais ça n'empêche pas d'exister. »

Em matéria de sexualidade, somos todos, no momento, doentes ou sãos, não mais do que hipócritas.

la importancia intelectual de un profesor académico nos trae consigo necesariamente aquel influjo sobre las jóvenes generaciones que se exterioriza en la creación de una escuela importante y numerosa.

It will be an undoubted advantage, I think, to revert to the old concept of 'defence', provided we employ it explicitly as a general designation for all the techniques which the ego makes use of in conflicts which may lead to a neurosis, while we retain the word 'repression' for the special method of defence which the line of approach taken by our investigations made us better acquainted with in the first instance.