Author Name

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Author : Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Author : Sigmund Freud

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Author : Sigmund Freud

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Author : Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Anatomy is destiny.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Author : Sigmund Freud