Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
sigmund Freudquotes
1856 - 1939
Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s innovative approaches to treating mental problems, and his theories regarding child sexuality, the ego, and the libido have made him a household name even nearly a century later.
The Austrian doctor, scientist and psychiatrist changed the face of psychology with his “talk therapy,” which allowed patients to vent their pent up emotions and thoughts, and in doing so, find a sense of relief. Though he worked with hypnosis for a time, he largely moved away from that popular arena and focused on free association and transference in his practice.
Many know his name because of phrases like, “Oedipus complex, or “oral fixation,” and it is true that Freud firmly held that all neuroses contained a sexual basis. He believed forgotten and repressed memories were the cause of pain and suffering. His groundbreaking idea that mental disorders may occur in the mind, and not in the brain, opened up avenues for extensive new research and thought.
Most of his ideas faced criticism and challenges in his day, perhaps most notably, his phallic-centric theories of sexual development. However, despite a controversial career Freud remained a highly original thinker whose concepts of the unconscious (the id, ego and superego), and dream interpretation and symbolism have been useful and important to the fields of psychology, art, sociology, and religion.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Where id is, there shall ego be.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
cornerstones / humanness / love / work
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
darkness / loneliness / robbed / valuables
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of creation.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
beauty / civilization / cultural / necessity / use
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
decision / Life / needs / unconscious