Zitat des Tages von Sigmund Freud:
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
If youth knew; if age could.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Anatomy is destiny.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
One is very crazy when in love.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.