100 famous phrases of Sigmund Freud of psychoanalysis, neurosis and love

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), was an Austrian neurologist, considered one of the precursors of psychology and father of psychoanalysis and one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century.

By creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and transfer, establishing its central role in the psychoanalytic process. On the other hand, his redefinition of sexuality to include his children's forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central principle of psychoanalytic theory.

His Dream analysis as squire compliance It provided models for the clinical analysis of the formation of symptoms and the underlying mechanisms of neurosis as a result of repressed feelings and memories. On this basis, Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure that includes the it, the self and the superego.

Freud postulated the existence of the libido, The energy with which mental processes generate their sexual drives. Other areas in which he worked were death drive, hatred, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his last works, Freud developed a broad and critical interpretation of religion and culture.

Although psychoanalysis today is in decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, it continues to influence psychology, psychiatry and. For this reason, it continues to generate an extensive highly controversial debate with respect to its therapeutic effectiveness.

We leave you below a selection of Freud's best phrases and psychoanalysis to enjoy them and make you think.

Sigmund Freud famous phrases

If we completely understood the reasons for other people's behavior, everything would make sense.

History is just new people who make old mistakes.

When you don't have what you want, you must want what you have.

The crystals reveal their hidden structures only when they break.

Emotions not expressed will never die. They are buried alive and will later appear in more unpleasant ways.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will seem the most beautiful.

The madman is a sleepy dreamer.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

The mind is like an iceberg, floats with a seventh part of its volume on water.

If you aspire to find yourself, don't look in the mirror, because you will only find a shadow, a stranger.

There is no starting point if you don't know where to go.

In every human being there are desires that I would not want to communicate to others, and desires that he does not want to confess himself.

Understanding is a smooth table in which there is nothing written.

If you want to be able to endure life, you must be willing to accept death.

As well as the rider, if you want.

Your strengths will come out of your vulnerabilities.

The function of art in society is to build, rebuild us when we are in danger of collapse.

And it is that nature does nothing in vain, and among animals, man is the only one who possesses the word.

Remembering is the best way to forget.

One can defend against attacks; against praise is helpless.

Each of us has everyone as mortals except himself.

The narcissism of small differences is the obsession to differentiate itself from what is more familiar and similar.

As no one can be forced to create, no one can be forced so that they do not believe.

I prefer the animals company more than the human company. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But being ruthless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Being completely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Most people really do not want freedom, because freedom implies responsibility, and most people fear responsibility.

The big question that has never been answered, and that I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research on the female soul, is' What does a woman want?'

Love is a temporary psychosis state.

There is little to give the children greater pleasure than when an adult is allowed to descend to their level, renounce their oppressive superiority and play with them as the same.

Where does a thought go when you forget?

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; She will be all ears.

From error to error one discovers the complete truth.

Illusions are recommended because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure in their place.

Only personal experience makes the wise man.

Anyone who wakes behaved as he did in dreams would be taken by crazy.

The first human who insulted his enemy instead of throwing a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

The representation of a coherent organization of the mood processes in a person, we call it their self.

The good ones are those who are content to dream what the evils come true.

The one who loves, becomes humble. Those who love, so to speak, renounce a part of their narcissism.

Look in the depths of your own soul and learn first to meet yourself, then you will understand why this disease attacked you and perhaps from there you avoid getting sick.

Anxiety in children is nothing other than an expression of the fact that they feel the loss of the person they love.

I realized my destiny: belong to the critical minority in opposition to the unquestionable majority.

What we cannot remember, we will repeat it.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

When a man who is released from religion, has a better opportunity to live a normal and healthy life.

In small affairs he trusts in the mind, the great heart.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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

Without love we fall sick.

All that occurs is asking, and all that is requested is love.

There are two ways to be happy in this life: one is to get the idiot and the other.

If the inspiration does not come to me I get to meet him, halfway.

Modern science has not yet produced a reassuring medication as effective as a few kind words are.

What a progress we have achieved! In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me. Now it is enough to burn my books.

Men, however it is impossible.

And to think that what I did least in my life was to have sex.

Here is the great unknown that I have not been able to solve, despite my thirty years of research on the female soul: what does the woman want?

I have been a lucky man in life: nothing was easy for me.

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself, you are that you in the past. And the only better person you should be, is what you are now.

Civilization is permanently threatened by disintegration due to the primary hostility of man.

The inability to tolerate ambiguity is the root of all neurosis.

All joke, in the background, conceals a truth.

The clearest proof that there is intelligent life on other planets is that they have not yet come

The interpretation of sleep is the royal route towards the knowledge of the unconscious.

I can't think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for the protection of a father.

I imitate is connatural to man.

Religion is an illusion that derives its strength from the fact that it satisfies our instinctive desires.

Men live, in general, the present with a certain ingenuity; that is, without being able to assess exactly its contents.

The repression is opposed to the self, and the task of canceling the resistances that the I externalizes to take care of the repressed is raised.

We will all die, but our works will remain.

Whoever thinks of failure has already failed before trying; Who thinks about winning, takes a step forward

One owns what is silent and slave to what he speaks.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false measurement standards: they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and underestimate what is of true value in life.

Not everything depends on wishes, but even so, I am one of those who have decided to try to carry out their wishes.

The movement does not exist outside of things, because everything that changes, or changes in the order of the substance or in quantity, or in quality, or in the place.

It would be very nice if God existed, that the world had created and was a benevolent providence; that there were a moral order in the universe and a future life; But it is a very surprising fact that all this is exactly what we feel forced to want to exist.

Fear is a suffering that produces the waiting of evil.

No critic is more capable than I clearly perceive the disproportion that exists between the problems and the solution that I contribute to them.

It is necessary that there are one or several principles and even, if there is only one, that it is immutable and immutable.

Contemplating flowers is sedative. They do not wake up emotions or conflicts.

There is a story behind each person. There is a reason why they are. It's not just because they want it. Something in the past has done so, and sometimes it is impossible to change them.

Where they love do not want and where they want they do not love.

The civilization began the first time that an angry person launched a word instead of a rock.

How bold you get when you are sure to be loved.

Words have a magical power. They can bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair; They can transfer teacher to student; Words allow the speaker to influence his audience and dictate his decisions. Words are able to arouse stronger emotions and boost the actions of all men.

Our complexes are the source of our weakness; But often, they are also the source of our force.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the it that contains the passions.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

The objective of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can normally unhappy.

Conservatism is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, reluctant to adapt to changing conditions.

One must learn to abandon the momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, moderate, but reliable pleasure.

When inspiration does not come to me, I'm going halfway to find her.

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit it openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection for fear. The fear that their feelings are not recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings intrigues me more, and it is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection, even if it kills them slowly inside.

Beauty does not have an obvious use; Nor is there a clear cultural need for it. However, civilization could not be without that.

Psychoanalysis is, in essence, a cure through love.

The unconscious of a human being can react to that of another without going through the conscious.

We do not chose each other. We only know those that already exist in our subconscious.

The only thing I know with certainty is that the value judgments of man directly follow his desire for happiness: that, consequently, they are an attempt to support their illusions with arguments.

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my time, until I studied things for myself and reached my own conclusions.

The goal of a lifetime is death.

100 best famous phrases and reflections of life