Quotes About Psychology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here we may be assisted by the idea that a defence against an unwelcome internal process will be modelled upon the defence adopted against an external stimulus, that the ego wards off internal and external dangers alike along identical lines.

nadie es responsable de sus sentimientos y que su conducta y la enfermedad contraída bajo el peso de tales circunstancias constituían un alto testimonio de su moralidad.

Cualquiera que despierto se comportase como lo hiciera en sueños sería tomado por loco.

Um trauma teria de ser definido como um acréscimo da excitação no sistema nervoso, que este é incapaz de fazer dissipar-se adequadamente pela reação motora. Um ataque histérico talvez deva ser considerado como uma tentativa de completar a reação ao trauma.

El trabajo de Charcot devolvió primeramente a este tema su dignidad y dio fin a las irónicas sonrisas con las que se acogían las lamentaciones de las pacientes.

I cannot discover this oceanic feeling in myself. It is not easy to deal scientifically with feelings

La neurosis obsesiva deja ver, mucho más claramente que la histeria, cómo los factores que integran las psiconeurosis no deben buscarse en la vida sexual actual, sino en la infantil.

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

The final transformation which the fear of the super-ego undergoes is, it seems to me, the fear of death (or fear for life) which is a fear of the super-ego projected on to the powers of destiny.

Los sueños quedan así definidos como la actividad anímica del durmiente durante el estado de reposo.

An important element in the theory of repression is the view that repression is not an event that occurs once but that it requires a permanent expenditure [of energy]. If this expenditure were to cease, the repressed impulse, which is being fed all the time from its sources, would on the next occasion flow along the channels from which it had been forced away, and the repression would either fail in its purpose or would have to be repeated an indefinite number of times.

It is a characteristic common to all perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside.

In the traumatic neuroses there are two outstanding features which might serve as clues for further reflection: first that the chief causal factor seemed to lie in the element of surprise, in the fright; and secondly that an injury or wound sustained at the same time generally tended to prevent the occurrence of the neurosis.

The effect brought about in the ego by the defences can rightly be described as an 'alteration of the ego' if by that we understand a deviation from the fiction of a normal ego which would guarantee unshakable loyalty to the work of analysis.