Sigmund Freud Quotes About Sexuality

Quotes about: Sexuality

• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

• In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychological, Sexuality, Found

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

• Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

  Sigmund Freud

  Keys, Doors, Neurosis

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

• No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Baby, Fall, Reflection

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”

• We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Vices, Heterosexuality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

• In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hypocrite, Matter, Sexuality

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

• Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Culture, Cost, Heritage

  Freud, Sigmund (2014). “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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