Quotes About Desire

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

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.

Who lacks sex speaks about sex, hungry talks about food, a person who has no money - about money, and our oligarchs and bankers talk about morality

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.

Woman ... what does she want?

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

We never lose what we really want

The great question that has never been answered , and which I have not yet been able to answer , despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul , is What does a woman want?

what the behavior of men themselves reveals as the purpose and object of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to attain in it. The answer to this can hardly be in doubt: they seek happiness, they want to become happy and remain so.

The tension between the harsh super-ego and the ego that is subjected to it, is called by us the sense of guilt; it expresses itself as a need for punishment. Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.

We will turn, therefore, to the less ambitious problem: what the behaviour of men themselves reveals as the purpose and object of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to attain in it. The answer to this can hardly be in doubt: they seek happiness, they want to become happy and to remain so.

Children have no fear of their dolls coming to life, they may even desire it.

Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

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.

É seguro supor, portanto, que o que foi sonhado no sonho é uma representação da realidase, a verdadeira lembrança, ao passo que a continuação do sonho, pelo contrário, meramente representa o que aquele que sonha deseja. Incluir algo num sonho dentro de um sonho equivale assim a desejar que a coisa descrita como um sonho jamais tivesse acontecido.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

The act of eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union.

DüÅŸmanl???n hiçbir doyum ihtimali yoktur, bu yüzden – yani ekonomik nedenlerden ötürü – daha fazla doyum, yani boÅŸal?m olana?? sunan sevgi yakla??m?yla yer deÄŸiÅŸtirir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 77

Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.