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• What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  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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• At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Memories, Views

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• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Emotional, Long

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

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  Horse, Men, Differences

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

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• Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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  Sadism, Ends, Should

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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

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  Family, Girl, Fall

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• A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Home, Age

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hands, Giving, Littles

  Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

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• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

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  Ego, Enemy, Savages

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• I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

  Sigmund Freud

  Use, Firsts, Serious

  Sigmund Freud, Sander L. Gilman (1995). “Psychological writings and letters”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheism, Tasks, Affliction

  The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

  Sigmund Freud

  Decision, Found, Pros And Cons

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• Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Disappointment, Tasks

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Fall, Ideas

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

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• Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Solitude, Suffering

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

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• The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Mind, Stage

  Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere, James Strachey (1959). “Collected Papers: Papers on metapsychology. Papers on applied psycho-analysis”

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• Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

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  War, Civilization, Growth

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

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  Ideas, Argument, Human Nature

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Top of Sigmund Freud”, p.7, 谷月社

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• A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Passion, Men

  Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess (1957). “The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902”

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hard, Ifs

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego: Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside”, p.68, eKitap Projesi

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• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

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  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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

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• The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Analysis, Resistance

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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