Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund FreudTags: expression emotion self-expression freud repression
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
Sigmund FreudNuestra alma no es una unidad pacífica, autorregulada. Ella es, antes bien, comparable a un Estado moderno, en el que una chusma ansiosa de placer y de destrucción tiene que ser sojuzgada por una clase superior y más juiciosa
Sigmund FreudHumanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable; this is associated in our minds with the name of Copernicus, although Alexandrian doctrines taught something very similar. The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him: this transvaluation has been accomplished in our own time upon the instigation of Charles Darwin, Wallace, and their predecessors, and not without the most violent opposition from their contemporaries. But man's craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow from present-day psychological research which is endeavoring to prove to the ego of each one of us that he is not even master in his own house, but that he must remain content with the veriest scraps of information about what is going on unconsciously in his own mind. We psycho-analysts were neither the first nor the only ones to propose to mankind that they should look inward; but it appears to be our lot to advocate it most insistently and to support it by empirical evidence which touches every man closely.
Sigmund FreudThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund FreudTags: individuality liberty civilization
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund FreudTags: illness neurosis complaining stubborness neurotics
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
Sigmund FreudTags: civilization instinct
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund FreudTags: analogies
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund FreudTags: morality immorality
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
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