Sigmund Freud Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Imagination

• Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suffering, Needs, World

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

• Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Evil, Understanding

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected papers”

• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Suicide, Dying

• There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Believe, Son

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.17, Routledge

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