Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freudwas an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 May 1856
CityPribor, Czech Republic
CountryAustria
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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
There are no mistakes
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.