Sigmund Freud Quotes

Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Au... more Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Austria, Freud developed key theories on the unconscious mind, the significance of dreams, and the structure of personality. His influential work established concepts such as the id, ego, and superego, shaping the field of psychology. less

"One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.""No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.""Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.""Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.""The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.""Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.""If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.""Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.""Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet.""The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought.""The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.""Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.""Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes.""Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires.""We are what we are because we have been what we have been.""The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.""Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.""The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.""The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling.""The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."

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