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“We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.”

Quote by Sigmund Freud

Book:Totem and Taboo

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Totem and Taboo

Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo delves into the origins of religious and social institutions, proposing that primitive societies experienced a taboo against incest, which led to the development of totemism and other social structures. The book also examines the role of the unconscious in human behavior and the influence of primitive instincts on modern civilization. more

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Sigmund Freud, born on May 6, 1856, in Moravia, and died on September 23, 1939, in London, was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Known as the father of modern psychology, Freud made significant contributions to the understanding of human psychology, introducing concepts such as the unconscious mind, dream analysis, and sexual theory. more

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“An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.”

Needs Mean Method Satisfaction Punishment Enjoyment Caution Conducting Enticing

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.”

Enough Differences Groups Prejudice Fundamentals Intolerance Small Differences

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.”

Ideas Purpose Fall Religious

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.”

Hard Pain Too Much Impossible Tasks Disappointment Remedy

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.”

Men War Individual Force Situation Promise Murder Shame Fellows Every Man Manhood Fellow Man

Book:Civilisation, War and Death

Source: Civilisation, War and Death

“I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador”

Men Adventure Thinker Observers Temperament Conquistadors

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.”

Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works

“These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.”

Reason Reality Patient

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.”

Humans Human Beings Silence Darkness Solitude Elements Anxiety Majority Productions Factors Infantile

Book:Writings on Art and Literature

Source: Writings on Art and Literature

“If you can't do it, give up!”

Ifs Giving Giving Up

Author:Sigmund Freud