It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved.

Sigmund Freud

Mots clés psychoanalysis atheism-religion

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It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

Sigmund Freud

Mots clés corruption

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I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Sigmund Freud

Mots clés shakespeare children child fraud author fake handwriting anonymous queen-elizabeth-i edward-de-vere bruce-hutchison burghley cecil-burghley de-vere love-s-labor-lost mark-anderson secret-child shakespeare-s-signature shakespeare-signature who-was-shakespeare who-wrote-shakespeare

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The medical profession is justly conservative.

Sigmund Freud

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One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature or civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. And in fact it is not difficult to indicate those defects. While mankind has made continual advances in its control over nature and may expect to make still greater ones, it is not possible to establish with certainty that a similar advance has been made in the management of human affairs; and probably at all periods, just as now once again, many people have asked themselves whether what little civilization has thus acquired is indeed worth defending at all. One would think that a re-ordering of human relations should be possible, which would remove the sources of dissatisfaction with civilization by renouncing coercion and the suppression of the instincts, so that, undisturbed by internal discord, men might devote themselves to the acquisition of wealth and its enjoyment. That would be a golden age, but it is questionable if such a state of affairs can be realized. It seems rather that every civilization must be built upon coercion and renunciation of instinct; it does not even seem certain that if coercion were to cease the majority of human beings would be prepared to undertake to perform the work necessary for acquiring new wealth. One has, I think, to reckon with the fact that there are present in all men destructive, and therefore anti-social and anti-cultural, trends and that in a great number of people these are strong enough to determine their behavior in human society.

Sigmund Freud

Mots clés civilization psychoanalysis instinct will-to-power id superego 1928

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Sigmund Freud

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