Sigmund Freud Quotes About Unity

Quotes about: Unity

• Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

  Sigmund Freud

  Race, Civilization, Unity

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

• 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

• So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Humanity, Unity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

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