Sigmund Freud Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Rejection, Perception, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.79, Routledge

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intellectual, Unity, Perception

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.111, Psychology Press

• Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

  Sigmund Freud

  Perception, Protection, Stimulus

• Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Numbers, Ego, Feelings

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

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