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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

“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”

- Sigmund Freud

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

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Sigmund Freud

“The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neorosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.”

- Sigmund Freud

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

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Sigmund Freud

“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”

- Sigmund Freud

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

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Sigmund Freud

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey - Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

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Sigmund Freud

“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

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Sigmund Freud

“It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

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Sigmund Freud

“Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

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Sigmund Freud

“The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

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Sigmund Freud

“Where id is, there shall ego be.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

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Sigmund Freud

“Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.”

- Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes: Anxiety and Instinctual Life (Lecture 32) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

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