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
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.
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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.
People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.
We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.
At the bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father