Sigmund Freud on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Sigmund Freud, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #4307: "The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #194250: "We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
7 Quotes by Sigmund Freud on Life
"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
"...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility."
"But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcise the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them."
"The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life."
"The common characteristic of all perversions, on the other hand, is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim. We term sexual activity perverse when it has renounced the aim of reproduction and follows the pursuit of pleasure as an independent goal. And so you realize that the turning point in the development of sexual life lies in its subjugation to the purpose of reproduction. Everything this side of the turning point, everything that has given up this purpose and serves the pursuit of pleasure alone, must carry the term "perverse" and as such be regarded with contempt."