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Sigmund Freud Quotes (183 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: First reported in Ernest Jones: Sigmund Freud. Life and work. (1957) p. 226 books google: |
| “It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Ego and the Id (1923) |
| “The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Ego and the Id (1923) |
| “The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Ego and the Id (1923) |
| “If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927) |
| “Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927) |
| “Religious doctrines
are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927) |
| “Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927) |
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Sigmund Freud
Born: May 6, 1856
Died: September 23, 1939 (aged 83)
Nationality: Austrian
Occupation: Psychologist
Bio: Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.
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