Freud Quotes

Freud Quote of the day

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The 'synagogue of Satan' is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

I could say it all began with my mother.

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake.” Ragtime

Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise".

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei

Dear Sigmund, Multiple Personality Disorder is a much discussed topic in my one bedroom bedsit."Signed....Thomas, Jane, Ralf, Tom, Toomey and Spot

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.