Sigmund Freud (Without love we fall ill.)

Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939.

In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfilments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.

Sigmund Freud Quotes

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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Without love we fall ill.

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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

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The madman is a dreamer awake

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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

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Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

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