Sigmund Freud Quotes About Prohibition

Quotes about: Prohibition

• Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, Expression, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.32, Routledge

• The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sex, Animal, Law

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.37, Routledge

• 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

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