Quotes By Sigmund Freud

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

One is very crazy when in love.

If you can't do it, give up!

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.