Sigmund Freud Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

• I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

  Sigmund Freud

  Animal, Privilege, Company

• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

• The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Animal, Law

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.37, Routledge

• It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Teamwork, Animal, Men

• What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Rain, Animal

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.3, Routledge

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