“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”
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Famous Sigmund Freud Quotes
“In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.”
“Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love”
“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
“Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.”
“In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.”
“When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”
“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
“The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.”
“Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.”
