Austrian - Psychologist | May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
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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.
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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