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Sigmund Freud Quotes (183 quotes)
 | “Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in a footnote Freud added to the Second Edition in 1909 (see Psychoanalytic Pioneers, p. 46.) |
| “Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics| (1913) |
| Source/Notes: Totem and Taboo : Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913) |
| “The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Leonardo da Vinci (1916) |
| “When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Problem of Anxiety (1925) |
| “The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: On his seventieth birthday (1926); as quoted in The Liberal Imagination (1950) by Lionel Trilling |
| “In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Letter to Dr. David Feuchtwang (1931), as quoted in Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home (1990) by Emanuel Rice, p. 25 |
| Source/Notes: Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937) |
| “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: From The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, ch. 1 (1953) edited by Ernest Jones |
| Source/Notes: Remark to Ernest Jones as quoted in The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: Years of maturity, 1901-1919 (1957) by Ernest Jones, p. 60 |
| Source/Notes: First reported in Ernest Jones: Sigmund Freud. Life and work. (1957) p. 226 books google: |
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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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