Sigmund Freud Quotes About Anxiety

Quotes about: Anxiety

• Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Loss, Expression

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three contributions to the theory of sex”, Plume

• Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Men, Anxiety

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Anxiety, Unrest

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Children, Fun

• The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Anxiety, Firsts, Birth

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1959). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Brother, Children, Fall

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

  Sigmund Freud

  Silence, Anxiety, Darkness

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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