Sigmund Freud Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  Sigmund Freud

  Taken, Fate, Views

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Men, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doubt, Suffering

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

• One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doe, Realization

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