Quotes About Psychology

Nous avons eu l'impression que la formation des rêves obscurs se déroulait comme si une personne qui dépend d'une deuxième avait à exprimer quelque chose qui ne peut qu'être désagréable à entendre par cette dernière et c'est en se fondant sur cette comparaison que nous avons appréhendé la notion de déformation du rêve et la notion de censure.

Pain is thus the actual reaction to loss of object, while anxiety is the reaction to the danger which that loss entails and, by a further displacement, a reaction to the danger of the loss of object itself.

The fading of a memory or the losing of its affect depends on various factors. The most important of these is whether there has been an energetic reaction to the event that provokes the affect. By 'reaction' we here understand the whole class of voluntary and involuntary reflexes - from tears to acts of revenge - in which, as experience shows us, the affects are discharged. If this reaction takes place to a sufficient amount a large part of the affect disappears as a result.

Gözlerinizi içeriye doÄŸru çevirin, kendi derinliklerinize bak?n, ilk önce kendinizi tan?y?n! O zaman neden hastalanmaya mecbur olduÄŸunuzu anlayacaks?n?z; ve belki de gelecekte hastalanman?z? önleyeceksiniz. (Freud, S. (1917a). A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

No stronger impression arises from the resistances during the work of analysis than of there being a force which is defending itself by every possible means against recovery and which is absolutely resolved to hold on to illness and suffering.

la civilización todavía no ha sido capaz de difundirse en las almas de la mayoría de los hombres sin una acumulación explosiva de energías destructoras.

filozoflar?n tan?d??? ruhsal,psikanalizin tan?d??? ruhsaldan ayr? bir ÅŸeydi.filozoflar?n büyük çoÄŸunluÄŸu salt bilinçli olaylara ruhsal ad?n? vermekteydi.bilinçli dünyayla ruhsal?n kapsam? birbiriyle çak??maktayd? filozoflara göre....filozoflara göre ruhun bilinçli fenomenlerden baÅŸka bir içeriÄŸi yoktu.

Schubert, for instance, claims: "The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

The chief task during the latency period seems to be the fending-off of the temptation to masturbate. This struggle produces a series of symptoms which appear in a typical fashion in the most different individuals and which in general have the character of a ceremonial. It is a great pity that no one has as yet collected them and systematically analysed them.

Barátom így szólt hozzám akkor az Andrássy-úton: Semmi emberi nem idegen tÅ'lem, mire én - pszichoanalitikus tapasztalatokra célozva - megjegyeztem: Messzebb is mehetnél ennél, és beismerhetnéd, hogy semmi állati nem idegen tÅ'led.

Just as the ego controls the path to action in regard to the external world, so it controls access to consciousness.

Our aim will not be to rub off every peculiarity of human character for the sake of a schematic 'normality', nor yet to demand that the person who has been 'thoroughly analysed' shall feel no passions and develop no internal conflicts. The business of the analysis is to secure the best possible psychological conditions for the functions of the ego; with that it has discharged its task

In order to understand a hysterical attack, all one has to do is to look for the situation in which the movements in question formed part of an appropriate and expedient action.

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

At any rate, we can see that repression is not the only means which the ego can employ for the purpose of defence against an unwelcome instinctual impulse. If it succeeds in making an instinct regress, it will actually have done it more injury than it could have by repressing it. Sometimes, indeed, after forcing an instinct to regress in this way, it goes on to repress it.

Schuldgefühle, ... sind die fundamentalen Kräfte, die Großzügigkeit und Altruismus zugrundeliegen.

The process of repression had attacked almost all the components of his Oedipus complex—both his hostile and his tender impulses towards his father and his tender impulses towards his mother.

But the affect of anxiety, which was the essence of the phobia, came, not from the process of repression, not from the libidinal cathexes of the repressed impulses, but from the repressing agency itself. The anxiety belonging to the animal phobias was an untransformed fear of castration.

It was anxiety which produced repression and not, as I formerly believed, repression which produced anxiety.

As far as can be seen at present, the majority of phobias go back to an anxiety of this kind felt by the ego in regard to the demands of the libido. It is always the ego's attitude of anxiety which is the primary thing and which sets repression going. Anxiety never arises from repressed libido.

The ego is, indeed, the organized portion of the id.

First published in 1893 and written in collaboration with Josef Breuer (1842-1925)

We should be quite wrong if we pictured the ego and the id as two opposing camps and if we supposed that, when the ego tries to suppress a part of the id by means of repression, the remainder of the id comes to the rescue of the endangered part and measures its strength with the ego. This may often be what happens, but it is certainly not the initial situation in repression. As a rule the instinctual impulse which is to be repressed remains isolated.

As the neurosis proceeds, we often find that the endeavour to undo a traumatic experience is a motive of first-rate importance in the formation of symptoms.