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
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.