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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I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.