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“Freud expresses this rather laconically: to find sexual pleasure in a relationship you have to conquer the incest prohibition, otherwise it will not work. He adds that this often works only in a second marriage or a second relationship. It seems as though the first catches all the negative weight of the past. Sex can be enjoyed only away from the mother.”
“Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.”
“Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.”
“Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“Freud is finished, Einstein's next.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”
“Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to throw that in the mix.”
“Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.”
Source: Introduction to Sociology
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.”
“Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.”
Source: Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle
“Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.”
“Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling." Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.”
Source: Gray
“Freud tanısaydı severdi beni." Sense bana boş boş bakmış, mutfak tezgahının yanlış eğilimi yüzünden ocak tarafında, su ısıtıcısının arkasında biriken suyu, süngerle almaya devam etmiştin.”
Source: Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz
“Freud taught that for any human being kindness or cruelty, having a sense of justice or lacking it, depend on the accidents of childhood. We all know this to be true, but it goes against much of what we say we believe. We cannot give up the pretence that being good is something anyone can achieve. If we did, we would have to admit that, like beauty and intelligence, goodness is a gift of fortune. We would have to accept that, in the parts of our lives where we are most attached to it, freedom of the will is an illusion. We would have to own up to what we all deny—that being good is good luck. By making us face this awkward truth, Freud wounded the concept of
'morality' more deeply than did Nietzsche.”
Source: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.”
“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.”
Source: Cool memories
“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”
“Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.”
“Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.”
“Freud was just a novelist.”
“Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said,
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise".”
“Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.”
“Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.”
“Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.”
“Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.”
“Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.”
“Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.”
“Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.”
“Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.”
“Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.”
“Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.”
“Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.”
“Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother”
“Freude, die einen Anlaß braucht, ist nicht Freude, sondern Vergnügen.”
Source: Walpurgisnacht
“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.”
“Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.”
“Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.”
“Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.”
Source: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
“Freunde müssen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Brüder sind immer Brüder.”
Source: I'm Not Stiller
“Freundlos war der große Weltenmeister,
Fühlte Mangel - darum schuf er Geister.
Sel'ge Spiegel seiner Seligkeit!
Fand das höchste Wesen schon kein gleiches,
Aus dem Kelch des ganzen Seelenreiches
Schäumt ihm - die Unendlichkeit.”
“Freundschaft – das ist selbst gewählte Familie.”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“Freundschaft, ou quelque chose comme ça. Ta meilleure amie gagne un million au Loto, t'es contente pour elle et, en même temps, tu peux pas t'empêcher de penser avec rage: "Pourquoi pas moi?".
J'adore Ariane, mais quand je vois sa vie parfaite, c'est pareil. "Pourquoi pas moi?".
J'ai horreur de penser des trucs comme ça.”
Source: Ce crétin de prince charmant
“Freundschaften entstehen, wie so vieles aus Entscheidungen. Manchmal muss man es einfach nur wagen.”
Source: Permale: Der Sog des Wassers (Permalregen-Trilogie 1)
“Freya’s eyes flash wide. “Oh!” She bobs a curtsy and speaks softly. “Your Highness. My lady. Forgive me. I was going to stoke the fire in the bedroom.”
What a coincidence, I think. I was considering the very same thing.
I turn to Harper before my thoughts can get ahead of me.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“Freya’s eyes flash wide. “Oh!” She bobs a curtsy and speaks softly. “Your Highness. My lady. Forgive me. I was going to stoke the fire in the bedroom.”
What a coincidence, I think. I was considering the very same thing.
I turn to Harper before my thoughts can get ahead of me. “I should leave you to your rest.” I bow, then take her hand to brush a kiss across her knuckles. “Until tomorrow, my lady.” It takes every ounce of self-restraint I possess to walk away.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“Freya se simțea precum o carte deschisă în mâinile lui. Emoțiile, sentimentele, toate trăirile ei puteau fi citite atât de ușor de el, încât nu le putea ascunde. Parfumul lui avea note subtile de citrice, ce îi inundau simțurile, impregnându-se în memoria ei ca o amprentă olfactivă a acelui moment.”
Source: Sub acoperirea minciunilor
“Freya sensed her mother's damage in the fluid worlds she painted, where beauty and cruelty were hard to distinguish.”
Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“Freya îl privea fix, parcă rugându-l să îi dea drumul, pentru că ea nu era capabilă să se tragă din brațele lui, însă el nu avea nicio intenție de acest gen.”
Source: Sub acoperirea minciunilor