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 no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
One is very crazy when in love.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.
The ego is not master in its own house.
If you can't do it, give up!
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.