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Sigmund Freud

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Psychologist

Biography: Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud

“I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: First reported in Ernest Jones: Sigmund Freud. Life and work. (1957) p. 226 books google:

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Sigmund Freud

“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)

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Sigmund Freud

“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)

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Sigmund Freud

“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)

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Sigmund Freud

“We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression … We see, however that we have two kinds of unconscious — that which is latent but capable of becoming conscious, and that which is repressed and not capable of becoming conscious in the ordinary way.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Ego and the Id (1923)

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Sigmund Freud

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927)

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Sigmund Freud

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927)

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Sigmund Freud

“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)

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Sigmund Freud

“A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927)

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Sigmund Freud

“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)

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