Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Sayings by Sigmund Freud
The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
The child is the father of the man.
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 dream is the guardian of sleep.
The dream is the royal road to the unconscious.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent.
The fully developed, healthy person operates according to the reality principle.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and enable us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality and are shattered.
No one who has tasted the forbidden fruit of knowledge can ever again be satisfied with the primitive bliss of ignorance.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The more the parents express their love, the more the child will grow in security and self-esteem.
The neurotic is always trying to avoid a catastrophe that never happens.
The dream is the fulfilling of a wish.
The aim of all life is to find pleasure and avoid pain.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, he invests it with a great deal of affect—though he separates it sharply from reality.
America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake.
Man has a need for religion but he also has a need for freedom from religion.