When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

— Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Quotes

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

— Sigmund Freud

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

— Sigmund Freud

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

— Sigmund Freud

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

— Sigmund Freud

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

— Sigmund Freud
Strong

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls” was urgently necessary or society was “doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

— Sigmund Freud

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

— Sigmund Freud

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud
Psychology

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

— Sigmund Freud

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

— Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.

— Sigmund Freud
Psychology Ego

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.

— Sigmund Freud

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

— Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

— Sigmund Freud

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

— Sigmund Freud
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