Category Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud says: “There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and … if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals

Sigmund Freud says: “The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.”

Sigmund Freud says: “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

Sigmund Freud says: “The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.”

Sigmund Freud says: “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”

Sigmund Freud says: “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”

Sigmund Freud says: “Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of…

Sigmund Freud says: “One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of…

Sigmund Freud says: “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Sigmund Freud says: “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures:…