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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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
If youth knew; if age could.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.