24 Sigmund Freud Quotes on Freud

Sigmund Freud quotes on freud

1. 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.

3. I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

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

10. The ego is not master in its own house.

14. Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

20. Man found that he was faced with the acceptance of 'spiritual' forces, that is to say such forces as cannot be comprehended by the senses, particularly not by sight, and yet having undoubted, even extremely strong, effects. If we may trust to language, it was the movement of the air that provided the image of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its name from the breath of wind (animus, spiritus, Hebrew: ruach = smoke). The idea of the soul was thus born as the spiritual principle in the individual ... Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself.

24. Was will das Weib?

25. In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

30. Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

32. 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 necessities.

33. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

35. Anatomy is destiny.

41. It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their mental life.

45. Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

46. Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.

48. Such progress we have made! In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me as a witch, but now they are content to burn my book.

50. 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?'

51. The moment a man begins to question the meaning and value of life, he is sick.

52. The only thing about masturbation to be ashamed of is doing it badly.

56. We are our desires. (appears at the end of the video of the Nu Virgos hit Stop! Stop! Stop!)

57. Secrets make you sick.

59. He had a sharp vision; no illusions lulled him to sleep except for an often exaggerated faith in his own ideas.

60. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

61. Doctor Freud not only used cocaine himself, but he also prescribed it to his patients. And then he drew his generalizations. Cocaine is a strong sexual arouser. That's why everything Freud invented - all those oedipuses, sphinxes and sphincters - is relevant only to a mental dimension of a patient, whose brain is turned to fried-eggs by cocaine. In such a state, one really has only one problem left - what to do first, to screw his mother or to do away with his father. Of course, until his cocaine runs out. And in those times, there were no problems with supplies. But so long as your daily dose is less than three grams, you don't have to fear either the Oedipus complex, nor other things discovered by Freud.