Sigmund Freud Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Play, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Asking

• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hands, Giving, Littles

  Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Pleasure, Uncertain

• When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Ego, Persons

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

• If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Attitude, Civilization

• Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Ego, Doe

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

• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Goal

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

• The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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

• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  Sigmund Freud

  God, Men, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Giving, Community

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

• 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

• If you can't do it, give up!

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Giving, Ifs

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Fall, Giving

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.22, Routledge

• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

  Sigmund Freud

  Work, Mean, Reality

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

• No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Giving, Would Be

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

• I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Substance, May

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.58, eKitap Projesi

• The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Father, Oedipus

  Sigmund Freud (2018). “The Ego and the Id”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

• Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Names, Giving

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

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