Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Sayings by Sigmund Freud
Infantile sexuality is the key to all neuroses.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious.
Man has a primary need to avoid pain.
Our civilization is largely responsible for our misery.
A man who has been the undisputed favorite of his mother retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.
From the moment of birth, man is destined to suffer.
All of us are a little mad.
The path to happiness is through the fulfillment of the pleasure principle.
The unconscious is the true psychic reality.
The aim of all life is to return to the inorganic state.
The greater the progress of science, the more it pushes back the limits of the unknown, but also the more it reveals the immensity of the unknown.
Sexual enlightenment of children is not only possible but necessary.
The creative writer is a valuable ally of the analyst.
No one who has a true grasp of the human mind will ever be a judge.
The analyst must be cold, distant, and impersonal.
The discovery of the unconscious is the most important step forward in the history of psychology.
The goal of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the superego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id.
The first requisite of civilization is that we should learn to distinguish between the good and the bad.
What is common in all these situations is the use of the unconscious as a means of communication.
The neurotic is a person who has not been able to overcome his childhood conflicts.