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've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
If youth knew; if age could.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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.
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
At the bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us