1. We do not choose each other by chance ... We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.
2. Ideal, eternal, hate-free love exists only between the addict and the drug.
3. Everything you do in bed is perfect and absolutely right. As long as they both like it. If there is this harmony, then you and only you are right, and all those who condemn you are perverts.
4. The more strange a dream seems to us, the deeper meaning it carries.
5. At the heart of all our actions are two motives: the desire to become great and sexual attraction.
6. We are never so defenseless as when we love and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of love or his love.
7. Illusions attract us because they relieve pain, and as a substitute they bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint when, in conflict with a part of reality, illusions are shattered.
8. In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
9. Limited pleasure only increases its value.
10. Nothing happens by accident, everything has a root cause.
11. Each person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires of which he is not conscious even to himself.
12. Only the fulfillment of childhood dreams can bring happiness.
13. Neurosis is the inability to endure uncertainty.
14. Why don't we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
15. How bold and self-confident becomes the one who gains the conviction that he is loved.
16. Every normal person is actually only partly normal.
17. The first person who threw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization.
18. The task of making a person happy was not part of the plan for the creation of the world.
19. Wit is an outlet for feelings of hostility that cannot be satisfied in any other way.
20. Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
21. We are not always free from mistakes about which we laugh at others.
22. It is natural for a person to value and desire above all things that he cannot achieve.
23. People are more moral than they think and much more immoral than they can imagine.
24. Whoever watched the baby, having been satiated, moves away from the chest and falls asleep with rosy cheeks and a happy smile, cannot avoid the thought that this picture continues to exist for the rest of it.
People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
The patient's illness is not at all something finished, petrified, but continues to grow and develop as a living being. The beginning of the treatment does not put an end to this development, but as soon as the treatment seizes the patient, it turns out that all the new creativity of the disease is directed towards the relation to the psychoanalyst.
In the Middle Ages they would burn me, now they burn only my books.
Sigmund Freud
The first person to throw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization.
The first sign of stupidity is the complete absence of shame.
The truth will set you free
Fate does not accept excuses.
A woman should soften, not weaken a man.
The more strange a dream seems to us, the deeper meaning it carries.
In dreams, flowers often symbolize the human genitals; perhaps giving flowers, that is, the “genital organs” of plants, to lovers in general has this unconscious meaning.
The dream is never concerned with trifles; we do not allow the insignificant to disturb us in a dream. Outwardly innocent dreams turn out to be not harmless if one takes up their interpretation; so to speak, they always have a "stone in their bosom."
It is impossible not to recognize that interpreting and communicating your dreams is a difficult task, involving overcoming oneself. You have to expose yourself as the only villain among all the other noble people.
The unconscious does not know the word "no". The unconscious can do nothing but desire.
The dream is the guardian of sleep, not its disturber.
Whenever in life someone gets in our way, and with the complexity of life relationships this happens very often, the dream is immediately ready to kill him, be it father, mother, brother, sister, or spouse.
Every dream has at least one place where it is incomprehensible, an umbilical cord, so to speak, by which it is connected with the unknown.
The dream makes no distinction between what is desired and what is real.
In our dreams we always have one foot in childhood.
The desire, the fulfillment of which is a dream, springs from the life of a child, and therefore, to his surprise, a person finds in a dream a child who continues to live by his impulses.
People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
When an old maid gets a dog and an old bachelor collects figurines, the former compensates for the absence of married life, while the latter creates the illusion of numerous love victories. All collectors are a kind of Don Juan.
The psyche is vast, but does not know about it.
Fate, which can grant a substitute for the lost possibility of satisfaction, is easier to heal than a doctor.
Work, like nothing else in life, connects a person with reality. In his work, he is at least securely tied to a part of reality, to human society.
Wit is an outlet for feelings of hostility that cannot be satisfied in any other way.
The joke makes it possible to satisfy the lustful or hostile instinct, despite the obstacle in its path.
The relationship between psychoanalyst and analysand is based on the love of truth, that is, on the recognition of reality.
There is nothing more precious than illness and ignoring it.
The ego is not the master in its own house.
Many mysteries of the love life of adults are due only to the exaggeration of moments of infantile love.
Why don't we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
When people get married, they no longer - in most cases - live for each other, as they did before. Rather, they live with each other for someone else, and dangerous rivals soon appear for the husband: the household and the nursery.
We find life too difficult for us; it brings too much pain, a series of disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without sedatives.
Acute grief after the loss of our own child will be erased, but we remain inconsolable and will never be able to find a replacement. Everything that takes up an empty place, even if it manages to fill it, remains something else. That's the way it should be. This is the only way to prolong the love we don't want to give up.
The one whose lips are silent blurts out with the tips of his fingers. He betrays himself in every way.
Wishes for a long and happy life are inexpensive; they are vestiges of that era when man believed in the magical power of thought.
The peculiarity of the spiritual past is that, unlike the historical past, it is not squandered by descendants.
The intimate desires and fantasies of the artist become works of art only through transformation, when the obscene in these desires is softened, their personal origin is masked and, as a result of the observance of the rules of beauty, a seductive share of pleasure is offered to other people.
An educator can only be one who can penetrate into a child's soul, and we adults do not understand children, because we no longer understand our own childhood.
Each philosopher, writer and biographer invents his own psychology, puts forward his own hypotheses about the patterns and goals of mental acts. In the field of psychology there is no respect and authority. Here, anyone can "poach" according to their own tastes.
An unbearable burden is placed on psychoanalysis if it is required to realize in everyone its precious ideal.
People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
The patient who goes around talking about his psychoanalysis runs the risk of nullifying it from the very beginning.
We enter the world alone and leave it alone.
Recognizing the problem is half the battle in solving it.
We live in a very strange time and note with surprise that progress is keeping pace with barbarism.
The constellations are certainly majestic, however, as far as consciousness is concerned,
The Lord God has done a disproportionate work and done it carelessly, since the vast majority of human beings have received only a modest portion of it, barely enough to be worth talking about.
The child in the mother's womb is the prototype of all types of human relationships. To choose a sexual object is simply to find it again.
Only the realization of childhood dreams can bring happiness.
The psyche is vast, but does not know about it.
A tolerant attitude towards life remains the first duty of all living beings.
If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death.
The death of a loved one can stir up the whole past in a person.
The national character is the condensate of the history of the people.
The Russian psyche has risen to the conclusion that sin is clearly necessary in order to experience all the bliss of God's mercy, and that fundamentally sin is a godly deed.
The repository of ideas is created as a result of the need of a person to somehow cope with his helplessness.
The unconscious of one human being can react to the unconscious of another without any participation of consciousness ... Everyone in his unconscious has a tool that allows him to interpret the messages of the unconscious of other people.
Childhood, devoid of a sense of shame, later seems to us a kind of paradise, and yet this very paradise is nothing but a mass fantasy about human childhood.
Reasons for conflict between mother and daughter arise when the daughter grows up and meets in her mother an opponent of her sexual freedom, while the maturity of the daughter reminds the mother that the time has come to give up her own sexual life.
The desired is a reliable and in all significant respects complete picture of the patient's forgotten years of life. Our imagination always works according to old patterns.
The primacy of the intellect looms in a very, very distant, but still apparently not infinite distance.
Unsatisfied desires are the driving forces of dreams, and each fantasy separately is the fulfillment of desire, the correction of unsatisfactory reality.
A work of art, like a dream, is a continuation and replacement of past childhood games. Each playing child behaves like a poet, creating for himself his own world or, more precisely, bringing the objects of his world into a new order pleasing to him.
In the course of the development of culture, so much of the divine and holy was extracted from the sexual that the impoverished remnant began to be despised.
The mental development of the individual in an abbreviated form repeats the course of human development.
Probably, there is not a single nursery among the inhabitants of which strong conflicts would not reign. Their motives are the struggle for the love of their parents, for the possession of common things, for a place in the room.
A small child does not yet know the deep abyss between man and animals, and the arrogance with which a person treats an animal develops in him later.
The unconscious is a special psychic realm of the infantile.
In the unconscious, everyone is convinced of his immortality.
Prudence is only a part of spiritual life. In addition to it, many more unreasonable things happen in the soul, and therefore it happens that we are completely unreasonably ashamed of our dreams.
Anyone who is familiar with the mental life of a person knows that hardly anything else is as difficult for him as the renunciation of once experienced pleasure.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
The child in the mother's womb is the prototype of all types of human relationships. To choose a sexual object is simply to find it again.
Only the realization of childhood dreams can bring happiness.
The psyche is vast, but does not know about it.
A tolerant attitude towards life remains the first duty of all living beings.
We want to exist, we are afraid of non-existence, and therefore we invent beautiful fairy tales in which all our dreams come true.
An unknown goal waiting for us ahead, the flight of the soul, paradise, immortality, god, reincarnation - all these are illusions designed to sweeten the bitterness of death.
The only purpose of life is the very process of existence, i.e. eternal struggle for survival
When I am criticized, I can defend myself, but I am powerless against praise.
Depression is frozen fear.
Consider the unsettling contrast between the radiant mind of a healthy child and the dementia of an average adult.
Everyone creates God in the image of his father.
The task of making a person happy was not part of the plan for the creation of the world.
If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death
A person loves what is lacking in his Self to achieve the ideal.
Conscience becomes the stricter and the more sensitive, the more a person is restrained from aggression against others.
A true masochist will always put his cheek where he has the prospect of getting hit.
The masochist wants to be treated as small, helpless and dependent, but most importantly as a bad child.
In order not to get sick, we need to start to love, and it remains only to get sick when, due to failure, you lose the opportunity to love.
In a certain sense, what we call happiness happens as a result of the (preferably unforeseen) satisfaction of long-held needs.
Education must find its way between the Scylla of free agency and the Charybdis of prohibition.
The program to become happy, to which the pleasure principle compels us, is unfulfillable, and yet we must not, no, we cannot - give up trying to somehow fulfill it ... Happiness - in the moderate sense in which we can recognize its possibility is the problem of individual economy of libido. There is no advice here that would suit everyone: everyone should tailor his happiness to his own style ...
Cruelly trampled on by reality, the immortality of the I is preserved by finding its refuge in its own child.
If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate uncertainty.
A person recovers by "giving free rein" to his sexuality.
Being absolutely honest with yourself is a good exercise.
Every normal person is actually only partly normal.
Love is the most proven way to overcome shame.
Only the realization of childhood dreams can bring happiness.
Nothing costs so much in life as illness and stupidity.
The task of making a person happy was not part of the plan for the creation of the world.
We are not always free from mistakes about which we laugh at others.
Love itself - like suffering, deprivation - reduces the sense of self-worth, but mutual love, the possession of a beloved object again increases it.
A person loves what is lacking in his Self to achieve the ideal.
Conscience becomes the stricter and the more sensitive, the more a person is restrained from aggression against others.
Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
A true masochist will always put his cheek where he has the prospect of getting hit.
Fate, which can grant a substitute for the lost possibility of satisfaction, is easier to heal than a doctor.
Work, like nothing else in life, connects a person with reality. In his work, he is at least securely tied to a part of reality, to human society.
Wit is an outlet for feelings of hostility that cannot be satisfied in any other way.
The joke makes it possible to satisfy the lustful or hostile instinct, despite the obstacle in its path.
A joke allows us to use something funny in our enemy that we could not, due to some obstacles, express openly or consciously. The joke will bribe the listener with the lure of pleasure, so that he, without delving into the problem, accepts our point of view.
Humor does not submit to fate, it is stubborn and marks not only the triumph of the Ego, but also the triumph of the pleasure principle, which is capable of asserting itself here despite the unfavorable circumstances of reality.
The humorist achieves superiority because he enters the role of an adult, to some extent he identifies himself with his father and takes other people for children.
The world of fantasy is a "sparing zone" that is created during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle.
Sexuality combines the highest and the lowest.
Many valuable cultural achievements for us have been achieved at the expense of sexuality, more precisely, as a result of limiting the forces of sexual attraction.
The neurosis does not deny reality, it only does not want to know anything about it; psychosis denies it and tries to replace it. Normal or "healthy" we mean such an attitude that combines certain features of both reactions, which also denies reality little like a neurosis, but which also strives to change it like a psychosis.
The ego is not the master in its own house.
The ego can treat itself as other objects, observe itself, criticize itself, and God knows what to do with itself.
That from which the infantile Ego fled in fright, the adult and strengthened Ego often seems to be only child's play.
Science is not a revelation, it does not from the very beginning have the character of something certain, unchanging, infallible, which human thinking so passionately desires.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious in the life of the soul.
A person is not born to the full extent, since he spends part of his life as if in the body of his mother, plunging into a night's sleep.
The dream makes no distinction between what is desired and what is real.
In our dreams we always have one foot in childhood.
The desire, the fulfillment of which is a dream, springs from the life of a child, and therefore, to his surprise, a person finds in a dream a child who continues to live by his impulses.
Whenever in life someone gets in our way, and with the complexity of life relationships this happens very often, the dream is immediately ready to kill him, be it father, mother, brother, sister, or spouse.
Every dream has at least one place where it is incomprehensible, an umbilical cord, so to speak, by which it is connected with the unknown.
When a patient suddenly expresses the conviction that, in fact, all this time he was only simulating an illness, this is a sign of an approaching recovery.
The best way for the patient to take revenge is to demonstrate to himself the helplessness and failure of the doctor.
People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
The patient's illness is not at all something finished, petrified, but continues to grow and develop as a living being. The beginning of the treatment does not put an end to this development, but as soon as the treatment seizes the patient, it turns out that all the new creativity of the disease is directed towards the relation to the psychoanalyst.
The more strange a dream seems to us, the deeper meaning it carries.
In dreams, flowers often symbolize the human genitals; perhaps giving flowers, that is, the “genital organs” of plants, to lovers in general has this unconscious meaning.
Psychoanalysis has its own scale of values - a higher harmony of the Ego, which must fulfill the task of successfully mediating between the onslaughts of the instinctive life (Id) and the external world, that is, between external and internal reality.
To live for the ego means the same thing as being loved by the superego, and death by suicide symbolizes or acts out a kind of superego's rejection of the ego. This situation is reminiscent of the separation of a child from a protective mother.
Delusion is a patch placed on the spot where the original rupture in the ego's relationship to the outside world arose.
The ego-ideal is a reflection of the old idea of parents, an expression of surprise at their perfection, which the child then attributed to them.
The neuroses are caricatures of the great social products of art, religion and philosophy. Hysteria is a caricature of a work of art, obsessional neurosis is a caricature of religion, paranoia is a caricature of the philosophical system.
In psychosis, the fantasy world plays the role of a pantry, from where psychosis draws material or samples for building a new reality.
Mental changes do not occur too quickly, except perhaps in revolutions (psychoses).
The constellations are certainly majestic, however, as far as conscience/consciousness is concerned,
The Lord God has done a disproportionate work and done it carelessly, since the vast majority of human beings have received only a modest portion of it, barely enough to be worth talking about.
The masochist wants to be treated as small, helpless and dependent, but most importantly as a bad child.
In order not to get sick, we need to start to love, and it remains only to get sick when, due to failure, you lose the opportunity to love.
A tolerant attitude towards life remains the first duty of all living beings.
In prayer, a person is assured of a direct influence on the divine will, and thereby joins the divine omnipotence.
The artist is a man who turns away from reality because he is unable to reconcile himself to the renunciation of his instincts that it demands; he opens up space for his selfish and ambitious designs in the realm of fantasy.
His Majesty the child must fulfill the unfulfilled desires of his parents, become a great man, a hero instead of his father, the daughter must receive the prince as a husband as a late reward to her mother.
Cruelly trampled on by reality, the immortality of the I is preserved by finding its refuge in its own child.
Love itself - like suffering, deprivation - reduces the sense of self-worth, but mutual love, the possession of a beloved object again increases it.
Anxiety is a fundamental phenomenon and the central problem of neurosis.
A husband is almost always only a substitute for a beloved man, and not this man himself.
The first person to throw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization.
It is human nature to value and desire above all things that he cannot achieve.
Illusions attract us because they relieve pain, and as a substitute they bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint when, in conflict with a part of reality, illusions are shattered.
There is nothing more precious than illness and ignoring it.
The formation of a symptom is a substitute for that which is unacceptable to appear.
We all believe in the depths of our souls that we have reason to be offended by fate and nature for damage, both innate and inflicted on us in childhood; we all demand compensation for the insults inflicted in our youth on our self-esteem. Hence the claim to exclusion, to the right not to reckon with those doubts and fears that stop other people.
How bold and self-confident becomes the one who gains the conviction that he is loved.
The only purpose of life is the very process of existence, i.e. eternal struggle for survival.
Education must find its way between the Scylla of complete freedom of action and the Charybdis of prohibition.
The patient who goes around talking about his psychoanalysis runs the risk of nullifying it from the very beginning.
A small child does not yet know the deep abyss between man and animals, and the arrogance with which a person treats an animal develops in him later.
The unconscious is a special psychic realm of the infantile.
We are not always free from mistakes about which we laugh at others.
Nothing costs so much in life as illness and stupidity.
It is human nature to value and desire above all things that he cannot achieve.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanity.
Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
People are more moral than they think and much more immoral than they can imagine.
Thinking is a tentative action using small amounts of energy, similar to moving small pieces on a map before a general sets his many troops in motion.
The great question that has not been answered, and which I still cannot answer in spite of my thirty years of research into the female soul, is the question: "What does a woman want?"
Each person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires that he does not acknowledge even to himself.
For each of us, the world disappears with our own death.
Undoubtedly, the problem of anxiety is the focal point of many important questions; solution of the riddle of anxiety will shed a flood of light on the entire mental life of a person
You should not be surprised that I have accumulated a lot of new information regarding our hypotheses about the phenomenon of anxiety. It is also not surprising that all this information does not yet lead us to a solution to this complex problem.
The question of the meaning of human life has been raised countless times; a satisfactory answer to it has not yet been found, perhaps not at all. Some of the questioners added: if life has no meaning, then it loses all value for them. But this kind of threat doesn't change anything. Rather, it would seem that we have the right to dismiss this question. Its premise is human doubt, with the manifold manifestations of which we are already familiar. After all, they do not talk about the meaning of animal life, except perhaps in connection with their purpose to serve man ...
We enter the world alone and leave it alone
If we accept the fact that all living things die, return to the inorganic, for internal reasons, as an inadmissible fact, then we can only say that the goal of all life is death, and, going even further, that the inanimate existed before the living ... Our instincts, these guardians of life, were originally companions of death
The ego is the true seat of anxiety
We strive more to ward off suffering than to enjoy.
Being absolutely honest with yourself is a good exercise.
The theory of instincts is our mythology, so to speak. Instincts are mythical entities, majestic in their vagueness. In our work we cannot neglect them even for a moment, without ever being sure that we see them clearly.
Love and hunger intersect at the female breast.
Anyone who has watched the baby, having been satiated, pulls away from the chest and falls asleep with rosy cheeks and a happy smile, cannot avoid the thought that this picture continues to exist for the rest of his life as a prototype of the expression of sexual pleasure.
A child suckling the mother's breast becomes the prototype of any love relationship. Finding an object, in fact, is its reacquisition.
A small child is immoral, he has no internal inhibitions against the pursuit of pleasure.
Masturbation is one of the main abode, "primary addiction." Subsequent addictions - from alcohol, tobacco, morphine - are only its substitutes.
In a sense, what we call happiness happens as a result of the (preferably unforeseen) satisfaction of long-held needs.
Sexual restraint goes hand in hand with a certain cowardice and caution, while fearlessness and courage are associated with the free satisfaction of sexual desire.
A person recovers by "giving free rein" to his sexuality.
In the unconscious, everyone is convinced of his immortality.
Prudence is only a part of spiritual life. In addition to it, many more unreasonable things happen in the soul, and therefore it happens that we are completely unreasonably ashamed of our dreams.
Anyone who is familiar with the mental life of a person knows that hardly anything else is as difficult for him as the renunciation of once experienced pleasure.
Wit is an outlet for feelings of hostility that cannot be satisfied in any other way.
If one could not find anything in the other that should be corrected, then the two of them would be terribly bored.
When people get married, they no longer - in most cases - live for each other, as they did before. Rather, they live with each other for someone else, and dangerous rivals soon appear for the husband: the household and the nursery.
Every normal person is actually only partly normal.
The distinction between health and neurosis exists only during the day, but does not extend to dreams. In other words, even a healthy person is a neurotic, but the dream seems to be the only symptom that can form in him.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate uncertainty.
We find life too difficult for us; it brings too much pain, a series of disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without sedatives.
The peculiarity of the spiritual past is that, unlike the historical past, it is not squandered by descendants.
Neurosis represents a partial victory over the ego after the ego's failed attempt to repress sexuality.
When it comes to matters of religion, people take upon themselves the sin of quirky insincerity and intellectual incorrectness.
The interests of society demand that sexual development be delayed until the child has reached a certain degree of intellectual maturity, because with the complete breakthrough of the sexual impulse comes the end of the influence of education. Otherwise, the attraction would have broken all barriers and swept away the edifice of culture erected with such difficulty.
Each individual has given up part of his property, the fullness of his power, the aggressive and vindictive tendencies of his personality; from these contributions came the possession of material and ideal goods. Whoever, by virtue of his unyielding constitution, is unable to participate in this suppression of instincts, opposes society as a "criminal", as a "renegade", unless his social position and outstanding abilities allow him to come forward as a great man, a "hero".
There is not a single person who is able to refuse pleasure; even religion has to justify the demand to give up pleasure in the near future by the promise of incomparably greater and more valuable joys in some other world.
People know that they have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could easily exterminate each other to the last man. Much of their anxiety and unhappiness stems from this.
The ego can treat itself like other objects, observe itself, criticize itself, and God knows what to do with itself.
In a certain sense, what we call happiness happens as a result of the satisfaction of long-term pent-up needs.
In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
Why don't we fall in love with something new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
The world of fantasy is a "sparing zone" that is created during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle.
Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
The Russian psyche has risen to the conclusion that sin is clearly necessary in order to experience all the bliss of God's mercy, and that fundamentally sin is a godly deed.
The deeply rooted belief in psychic freedom and choice is completely unscientific and must give way to claims of determinism that governs psychic life.
Sexual restraint goes hand in hand with a certain cowardice and caution, while fearlessness and courage are associated with the free satisfaction of sexual desire.
Illusions attract us because they relieve pain, and as a substitute they bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint when, in conflict with a part of reality, illusions are shattered.
You should not be surprised that I have accumulated a lot of new information regarding our hypotheses about the phenomenon of anxiety. Not surprisingly, all this information does not yet lead us to a solution to this complex problem.
It is impossible to do without the domination of the minority over the masses, because the masses are inert and short-sighted, they do not like to give up impulses, they do not listen to arguments in favor of the inevitability of such a refusal, and the individual representatives of the mass encourage permissiveness and licentiousness in each other.
People, by and large, experience their modernity as if naively, without paying tribute to its deep content.
When it comes to matters of religion, people take upon themselves the sin of quirky insincerity and intellectual incorrectness.
The truth will set you free.
People, by and large, experience their modernity as if naively, without paying tribute to its deep content.
In prayer, a person is assured of a direct influence on the divine will, and thereby joins the divine omnipotence.
The artist is a man who turns away from reality because he is unable to reconcile himself to the renunciation of his instincts that it demands; he opens up space for his selfish and ambitious designs in the realm of fantasy.
His Majesty the child must fulfill the unfulfilled desires of his parents, become a great man, a hero instead of his father, the daughter must receive the prince as a husband as a late reward to her mother.
It is impossible to do without the domination of the minority over the masses, because the masses are inert and short-sighted, they do not like to give up impulses, they do not listen to arguments in favor of the inevitability of such a refusal, and the individual representatives of the mass encourage permissiveness and licentiousness in each other.
Wit is an outlet for feelings of hostility that cannot be satisfied in any other way.
The interests of society demand that sexual development be delayed until the child has reached a certain degree of intellectual maturity, because with the complete breakthrough of the sexual impulse comes the end of the influence of education. Otherwise, the attraction would have broken all barriers and swept away the edifice of culture erected with such difficulty.
Each individual has given up part of his property, the fullness of his power, the aggressive and vindictive tendencies of his personality; from these contributions came the possession of material and ideal goods. Whoever, by virtue of his unyielding constitution, is unable to participate in this suppression of instincts, opposes society as a "criminal", as a "renegade", unless his social position and outstanding abilities allow him to come forward as a great man, a "hero".
The relationship between psychoanalyst and analysand is based on the love of truth, that is, on the recognition of reality.
An unbearable burden is placed on psychoanalysis if it is required to realize in everyone its precious ideal.
People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
The patient who goes around talking about his psychoanalysis runs the risk of nullifying it from the very beginning.
When a patient suddenly expresses the conviction that, in fact, all this time he was only simulating an illness, this is a sign of an approaching recovery.
The best way for the patient to take revenge is to demonstrate to himself the helplessness and failure of the doctor.
There is not a single person who is able to refuse pleasure; even religion has to justify the demand to give up pleasure in the near future by the promise of incomparably greater and more valuable joys in some other world.
People know that they have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could easily exterminate each other to the last man. Much of their anxiety and unhappiness stems from this.
It is impossible to do without the domination of the minority over the masses, because the masses are inert and short-sighted, they do not like to give up impulses, they do not listen to arguments in favor of the inevitability of such a refusal, and the individual representatives of the mass encourage permissiveness and licentiousness in each other.
People, by and large, experience their modernity as if naively, without paying tribute to its deep content.
The intention to overthrow religion by force and at one blow is, no doubt, an absurd undertaking. First of all, because it is hopeless. The believer will not allow his faith to be taken away from him, neither by the arguments of reason, nor by prohibitions.
When it comes to matters of religion, people take upon themselves the sin of quirky insincerity and intellectual incorrectness.
It is impossible to do without the domination of the minority over the masses, because the masses are inert and short-sighted, they do not like to give up impulses, they do not listen to arguments in favor of the inevitability of such a refusal, and the individual representatives of the mass encourage permissiveness and licentiousness in each other.
Science is not an illusion. It would be an illusion to believe that we can get from somewhere else what it is not able to give us.
Science is not an illusion. It would be an illusion to believe that we can get from somewhere else what it is not able to give us.
The great Sigmund Freud left us not only the idea of the unconscious and psychoanalysis, but also unique aphorisms. These aphorisms make us think about various aspects of our life and in themselves have a wonderful psychotherapeutic effect.
Every normal person is actually only partly normal...
Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
People are more moral than they think and much more immoral than they can imagine.
We are never so defenseless as when we love and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of love or his love.
Usually hostile feelings appear later than tender ones; in their coexistence, they well reflect the ambivalence of feelings that dominates most of our intimate relationships.
Along with worldly necessity, love is a great educator; the love of loved ones prompts the unformed person to pay attention to the laws of necessity in order to avoid the punishments associated with the violation of these laws.
A man who was the undisputed favorite of his mother carries through his whole life a feeling of a winner and confidence in luck, which often lead to real success.
How bold and self-confident becomes the one who gains the conviction that he is loved.
The child's claim to his mother's love is immeasurable, they demand exclusivity and do not allow sharing.
In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
Many mysteries of the love life of adults are due only to the exaggeration of moments of infantile love.
We are not always free from mistakes about which we laugh at others.
It is human nature to value and desire above all things that he cannot achieve.
Each person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires that he does not acknowledge even to himself.
We strive more to ward off suffering than to enjoy.
Being absolutely honest with yourself is a good exercise.
Anyone who has watched the baby, having been satiated, pulls away from the chest and falls asleep with rosy cheeks and a happy smile, cannot avoid the thought that this picture continues to exist for the rest of his life as a prototype of the expression of sexual pleasure.
A child suckling the mother's breast becomes the prototype of any love relationship. Finding an object, in fact, is its reacquisition.
When the neurotic comes face to face with conflict, he takes flight into illness.
The neurosis does not deny reality, it only does not want to know anything about it; psychosis denies it and tries to replace it. Normal or "healthy" we mean such an attitude that combines certain features of both reactions, which also denies reality little like a neurosis, but which also strives to change it like a psychosis.
The neuroses are caricatures of the great social products of art, religion and philosophy. Hysteria is a caricature of a work of art, obsessional neurosis is a caricature of religion, paranoia is a caricature of the philosophical system.
In psychosis, the fantasy world plays the role of a pantry, from where psychosis draws material or samples for building a new reality.
Spiritual changes do not happen too quickly, except in revolutions.
The constellations are certainly majestic, however, as far as conscience/consciousness is concerned,
The Lord God has done a disproportionate work and done it carelessly, since the vast majority of human beings have received only a modest portion of it, barely enough to be worth talking about.
The ego is not the master in its own house.
The ego can treat itself as other objects, observe itself, criticize itself, and God knows what to do with itself.
That from which the infantile Ego fled in fright, the adult and strengthened Ego often seems to be only child's play.
Psychoanalysis has its own scale of values - a higher harmony of the Ego, which must fulfill the task of successfully mediating between the onslaughts of the instinctive life (Id) and the external world, that is, between external and internal reality.
To live for the ego means the same thing as being loved by the superego, and death by suicide symbolizes or acts out a kind of superego's rejection of the ego. This situation is reminiscent of the separation of a child from a protective mother.
Delusion is a patch placed on the spot where the original rupture in the ego's relationship to the outside world arose.
The ego-ideal is a reflection of the old idea of parents, an expression of surprise at their perfection, which the child then attributed to them.
Acute grief after the loss of our own child will be erased, but we remain inconsolable and will never be able to find a replacement. Everything that takes up an empty place, even if it manages to fill it, remains something else. That's the way it should be. This is the only way to prolong the love we don't want to give up.
The one whose lips are silent blurts out with the tips of his fingers. He betrays himself in every way.
Wishes for a long and happy life are inexpensive; they are vestiges of that era when man believed in the magical power of thought.
Human culture is based on two principles: on the mastery of the forces of nature and on the limitation of our inclinations. Chained slaves carry the throne of the sovereign. Woe if they were released: the throne would be overturned, the ruler would be trampled. Society knows this and doesn't want to talk about it.
The peculiarity of the spiritual past is that, unlike the historical past, it is not squandered by descendants.
We are never so defenseless as when we love and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of love or his love.
The intimate desires and fantasies of the artist become works of art only through transformation, when the obscene in these desires is softened, their personal origin is masked, and as a result of observing the rules of beauty
An educator can only be one who can penetrate into a child's soul, and we adults do not understand children, because we no longer understand our own childhood.
Each philosopher, writer and biographer invents his own psychology, puts forward his own hypotheses about the patterns and goals of mental acts. In the field of psychology there is no respect and authority. Here, anyone can "poach" according to their own tastes.
Science is not a revelation, it does not from the very beginning have the character of something certain, unchanging, infallible, which human thinking so passionately desires.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious in the life of the soul.
A person is not born to the full extent, since he spends part of his life as if in the body of his mother, plunging into a night's sleep.
Masturbation is one of the main abode, "primary addiction". Subsequent addictions - from alcohol, tobacco, morphine - are only its substitutes.
In a sense, what we call happiness happens as a result of the (preferably unforeseen) satisfaction of long-held needs.
Sexual restraint goes hand in hand with a certain cowardice and caution, while fearlessness and courage are associated with the free satisfaction of sexual desire.
A person recovers by "giving free rein" to his sexuality.
Usually hostile feelings appear later than tender ones; in their coexistence, they well reflect the ambivalence of feelings that dominates most of our intimate relationships.
Along with worldly necessity, love is a great educator; the love of loved ones prompts the unformed person to pay attention to the laws of necessity in order to avoid the punishments associated with the violation of these laws.
A man who was the undisputed favorite of his mother carries through his whole life a feeling of a winner and confidence in luck, which often lead to real success.
How bold and self-confident becomes the one who gains the conviction that he is loved.
In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
Illusions attract us because they relieve pain, and as a substitute they bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint when, in conflict with a part of reality, illusions are shattered.
We all believe in the depths of our souls that we have reason to be offended by fate and nature for damage, both innate and inflicted on us in childhood; we all demand compensation for the insults inflicted in our youth on our self-esteem. Hence the claim to exclusion, to the right not to reckon with those doubts and fears that stop other people.
The one whose lips are silent blurts out with the tips of his fingers. He betrays himself in every way.
The intimate desires and fantasies of the artist become works of art only through transformation, when the obscene in these desires is softened, their personal origin is masked and, as a result of the observance of the rules of beauty, a seductive share of pleasure is offered to other people.
Each philosopher, writer and biographer invents his own psychology, puts forward his own hypotheses about the patterns and goals of mental acts. In the field of psychology there is no respect and authority. Here, anyone can "poach" according to their own tastes.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious in the life of the soul.
In our dreams we always have one foot in childhood.
Desire, the fulfillment of which is a dream, springs from the life of a child, and therefore, to his surprise, he finds in a dream a child who continues to live by his impulses.
If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death.
The death of a loved one can stir up the whole past in a person.
The national character is the condensate of the history of the people.
The Russian psyche has risen to the conclusion that sin is clearly necessary in order to experience all the bliss of God's mercy, and that fundamentally sin is a godly deed.
The repository of ideas is created as a result of the need of a person to somehow cope with his helplessness.
The unconscious of one human being can react to the unconscious of another without any participation of consciousness ... Everyone in his unconscious has a tool that allows him to interpret the messages of the unconscious of other people.
Whenever in life someone gets in our way, and with the complexity of life relationships this happens very often, the dream is immediately ready to kill him, be it father, mother, brother, sister, or spouse.
The more strange a dream seems to us, the deeper meaning it carries.
In dreams, flowers often symbolize the human genitals; perhaps the gift of flowers, that is, the "genital organs" of plants, to lovers in general has this unconscious meaning.
A tolerant attitude towards life remains the first duty of all living beings.
If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death.
Childhood, devoid of a sense of shame, later seems to us a kind of paradise, and yet this very paradise is nothing but a mass fantasy about human childhood.
Reasons for conflict between mother and daughter arise when the daughter grows up and meets in her mother an opponent of her sexual freedom, while the maturity of the daughter reminds the mother that the time has come to give up her own sexual life.
The desired is a reliable and in all significant respects complete picture of the patient's forgotten years of life. Our imagination always works according to old patterns.
The primacy of the intellect looms in a very, very distant, but still apparently not infinite distance.
Unsatisfied desires are the driving forces of dreams, and each fantasy separately is the fulfillment of desire, the correction of unsatisfactory reality.
A work of art, like a dream, is a continuation and replacement of past childhood games. Each playing child behaves like a poet, creating for himself his own world or, more precisely, bringing the objects of his world into a new order pleasing to him.
Prudence is only a part of spiritual life. In addition to it, many more unreasonable things happen in the soul, and therefore it happens that we are completely unreasonably ashamed of our dreams.
There is not a single person who is able to refuse pleasure; even religion has to justify the demand to give up pleasure in the near future by the promise of incomparably greater and more valuable joys in some other world.
Unsatisfied desires are the driving forces of dreams, and each fantasy separately is the fulfillment of desire, the correction of unsatisfactory reality.
A work of art, like a dream, is a continuation and replacement of past childhood games. Each playing child behaves like a poet, creating for himself his own world or, more precisely, bringing the objects of his world into a new order pleasing to him.
In the course of the development of culture, so much of the divine and holy was extracted from the sexual that the impoverished remnant began to be despised.
The mental development of the individual in an abbreviated form repeats the course of human development.
Probably, there is not a single nursery among the inhabitants of which strong conflicts would not reign. Their motives are the struggle for the love of their parents, for the possession of common things, for a place in the room.
The artist is a man who turns away from reality because he is unable to reconcile himself to the renunciation of his instincts that it demands; he opens up space for his selfish and ambitious designs in the realm of fantasy.
Love itself - like suffering, deprivation - reduces the sense of self-worth, but mutual love, the possession of a beloved object again increases it.
A person loves what his "I" lacks to achieve the ideal.
If one could not find anything in the other that should be corrected, then the two of them would be terribly bored.
Why don't we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
When people get married, they no longer - in most cases - live for each other, as they did before. Rather, they live with each other for someone else, and dangerous rivals soon appear for the husband: the household and the nursery.
Every normal person is actually only partly normal.
We are not always free from mistakes about which we laugh at others.
Nothing costs so much in life as illness and stupidity.
It is human nature to value and desire above all things that he cannot achieve.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanity.
Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.
People are more moral than they think and much more immoral than they can imagine.
Thinking is a tentative action using small amounts of energy, similar to moving small pieces on a map before a general sets his many troops in motion.
Each person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires that he does not acknowledge even to himself.
Illusions attract us because they relieve pain, and as a substitute they bring pleasure. For this, we must accept without complaint when, in conflict with a part of reality, illusions are shattered.
There is nothing more precious than illness and ignoring it.
The formation of a symptom is a substitute for that which is unacceptable to appear.
We all believe in the depths of our souls that we have reason to be offended by fate and nature for damage, both innate and inflicted on us in childhood; we all demand compensation for the insults inflicted in our youth on our self-esteem. Hence the claim to exclusion, to the right not to reckon with those doubts and fears that stop other people.
When the neurotic comes face to face with conflict, he takes flight into illness.
For each of us, the world disappears with our own death.
We strive more to ward off suffering than to enjoy.
Being absolutely honest with yourself is a good exercise.
The theory of instincts is our mythology, so to speak. Instincts are mythical entities, majestic in their vagueness. In our work we cannot neglect them even for a moment, without ever being sure that we see them clearly.
Love and hunger intersect at the female breast.
Anyone who has watched the baby, having been satiated, pulls away from the chest and falls asleep with rosy cheeks and a happy smile, cannot avoid the thought that this picture continues to exist for the rest of his life as a prototype of the expression of sexual pleasure.
A child suckling the mother's breast becomes the prototype of any love relationship. Finding an object, in fact, is its reacquisition.
A small child is immoral, he has no internal inhibitions against the pursuit of pleasure.
Masturbation is one of the main abode, "primary addiction." Subsequent addictions - from alcohol, tobacco, morphine - are only its substitutes.
In a sense, what we call happiness happens as a result of the (preferably unforeseen) satisfaction of long-held needs.
Sexual restraint goes hand in hand with a certain cowardice and caution, while fearlessness and courage are associated with the free satisfaction of sexual desire.
A person recovers by "giving free rein" to his sexuality.
We are never so defenseless as when we love and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of love or his love.
Usually hostile feelings appear later than tender ones; in their coexistence, they well reflect the ambivalence of feelings that dominates most of our intimate relationships.
Along with worldly necessity, love is a great educator; the love of loved ones prompts the unformed person to pay attention to the laws of necessity in order to avoid the punishments associated with the violation of these laws.
A man who was the undisputed favorite of his mother carries through his whole life a feeling of a winner and confidence in luck, which often lead to real success.
How bold and self-confident becomes the one who gains the conviction that he is loved.
The child's claim to his mother's love is immeasurable, they demand exclusivity and do not allow sharing.
It is impossible not to recognize that interpreting and communicating your dreams is a difficult task, involving overcoming oneself. You have to expose yourself as the only villain among all the other noble people.
The unconscious does not know the word "no". The unconscious can do nothing but desire.
We live in a very strange time and note with surprise that progress is keeping pace with barbarism.
The constellations are certainly majestic, however, as far as consciousness is concerned,
The Lord God has done a disproportionate work and done it carelessly, since the vast majority of human beings have received only a modest portion of it, barely enough to be worth talking about.
In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
Many mysteries of the love life of adults are due only to the exaggeration of moments of infantile love.
If one could not find anything in the other that should be corrected, then the two of them would be terribly bored.
Why don't we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
The distinction between health and neurosis exists only during the day, but does not extend to dreams. In other words, even a healthy person is a neurotic, but the dream seems to be the only symptom that can form in him.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate uncertainty.
We find life too difficult for us; it brings too much pain, a series of disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without sedatives.
A joke allows us to use something funny in our enemy that we could not, due to some obstacles, express openly or consciously. The joke will bribe the listener with the lure of pleasure, so that he, without delving into the problem, accepts our point of view.
Humor does not submit to fate, it is stubborn and marks not only the triumph of the Ego, but also the triumph of the pleasure principle, which is capable of asserting itself here despite the unfavorable circumstances of reality.
The humorist achieves superiority because he enters the role of an adult, to some extent he identifies himself with his father and takes other people for children.
The world of fantasy is a "sparing zone" that is created during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle.
Sexuality combines the highest and the lowest.
Many valuable cultural achievements for us have been achieved at the expense of sexuality, more precisely, as a result of limiting the forces of sexual attraction.
« Aphorisms, quotes, sayings Freud»
"We choose each other not by chance ... We only meet those who already exist in our subconscious."
"The more flawless a person is on the outside, the more demons he has inside."
“Every person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires that he does not admit even to himself.”
“A husband is almost always only a substitute for a beloved man, and not this man himself.”
“He who loves many knows women, he who loves one knows love.”
“A person never refuses anything, he simply replaces one pleasure with another.”
"Sexual satisfaction is the best sleeping pill."
"How bold and self-confident becomes one who gains confidence that he is loved."
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
“Why don’t we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
“There are two motives underlying all our actions: the desire to become great and sexual attraction.”
“In a love relationship, one cannot spare each other, as this can only lead to alienation. If there are difficulties, they must be overcome.
"A woman should soften, not weaken a man."
"Love is the most proven way to overcome shame."
“We strive more to avert suffering from ourselves than to enjoy.”
“It is human nature to value and desire above all else what he cannot achieve.”
"Love itself - like suffering, deprivation - reduces the sense of self-worth, but mutual love, the possession of a beloved object again raises it."
"Only the fulfillment of a childhood dream can bring happiness."
"The great question that has not been answered, and which I still cannot answer in spite of my thirty years of research into the female soul, is the question, 'What does a woman want?'"
Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis, neuropathologist - Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in the town of Freiberg, located near the border of Prussia and Poland.
Freud's father was a poor wool merchant, married for the third time to a girl, Amalia, who was fit for his daughter, who gave birth to children year after year. The first-born was Sigmund, special hopes were placed on him, since during pregnancy it was predicted that his son was destined to become a great man.
When Sigmund was three years old, the family moved to Vienna. “Poverty and poverty, poverty and extreme squalor,” Freud recalled his childhood, as well as his studies at the lyceum, success in languages, literature, philosophy, praise from teachers and hatred of peers, leading to tears.
Recognizing Sigmund's abilities, the parents allocated a separate room to only one of all the children. And he did not deceive the hopes of his parents - he graduated from school with brilliance.
Freud's thirst for fame was, to some extent, compensation for the blow he received at the age of twelve, when his faith in the strength and authority of his father was shaken. A stranger on the street brushed a new fur hat off his father's head and shouted: "Jew, get off the sidewalk!" Father stepped off the sidewalk and raised his hat. This humility and humility deeply hurt Sigmund.
After leaving school, Freud entered the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Medicine, since for a Jew the choice lay between industry and business, law and medicine. The former were discarded, given Freud's intellectual mindset.
From 1881, Freud worked at the Institute of Physiology until 1882, where he enthusiastically studied the sexual organs of the eel. "No one has ever seen eel testicles." These were not the sexual organs of an eel, but the beginnings of psychoanalysis.
Until the age of thirty, Freud remained a virgin, he was afraid of women. This bothered him. At twenty-two, Freud let go of his beard for solidity. But his confidence that in life he would do just fine without women was broken. Once Sigmund was splashed with mud by a passing carriage. A pretty woman's head peeked out of the carriage. Freud froze in place: there was such sincere despair on the girl's face that he immediately forgot about his desire to make a scandal.
The next day a letter arrived from Martha Barnes. The doctor was asked for forgiveness and invited to the ball. There, two absolutely identical girls approached Sigmund, and he could not tell which of them was in that carriage. They were two sisters - Marta and Mina.
In 1884, Freud solemnly celebrated his engagement to Martha Beirnays, but the groom postponed the wedding until he was rich. Freud's courtship was peculiar. They quarreled and reconciled, Freud arranged violent scenes of jealousy, periods of nightmare were replaced by happy rare months of consent, but he could not marry without money.
In 1884, there is a hope of getting rich. Freud brings a little-known alkaloid cocaine from Merck and hopes to be the first to discover its properties. It is believed that before 1900, Freud overestimated the properties of the alkaloid, was cocoin addiction.
Freud needs money. The only way out is private practice. The first clients sent by doctor friends appear.
In September 1986, Freud nevertheless got married, however, he got into debt. Having married Martha, Freud did not forget about her sister. After one of the scandals caused by his wife's fit of jealousy, the forty-year-old Freud vows not to see Mina again. By that time, Freud already had five children. Daughter Anna followed in her father's footsteps and became a well-known psychologist.
In 1895 Freud discovered the method of free association. Free association, as Freud found, led the patient to forgotten events that he not only remembered but relived emotionally. It is this process that Sigmund Freud called "psychoanalysis" when he first used the term in 1896.
“I am already 44 years old,” he writes in a letter to his friend, “and who am I? An old poor Jew. Every Saturday I plunge into an orgy of fortune-telling cards, and every other Tuesday I spend with my Jewish brothers.
The turn to real fame and big money occurred in 1902, when Emperor Francois-Joseph I signed an official decree conferring the title of assistant professor to Sigmund Freud. Exalted ladies, puffing on cigarettes and dreaming of suicide, rushed towards him like a river. Freud worked 12-14 hours a day and was forced to call on the help of two young associates, they were soon joined by others. Freud took a lot for work. In addition, session time was limited to 45-50 minutes.
After regular observations of patients, in 1905 Freud's new work, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, was published. His theoretical conclusions regarding the sexual nature of man became known as the "libido theory".
In 1921, the University of London announced five great scientists: the physicist Einstein, the cabalist Ben-Baymonides, the philosopher Spinoza, and the mystic Philo. Sigmund Freud was fifth on this list.
When the Nazis occupied Austria, Freud did not leave Vienna. He was threatened by Auschwitz, but literally the whole world stood up for him: the Spanish king, whom he once treated, and the Danish queen were especially indignant. US President Franklin Roosevelt also tried to achieve the deportation of Freud from Austria. Everything was decided by the call of Benito Mussolini, Freud was treating one of his close friends.
Heinrich Himmler offered a ransom option. One of Freud's patients, and then a faithful student, was Napoleon's granddaughter Marie Bonaparte. She stated, "I will pay any amount for a teacher." The Nazi general named the price: two magnificent palaces of the princess - almost everything she had. “Thank God, you won’t be able to take away my grandfather’s surname from me,” Marie Bonaparte said with contempt, signing the papers.
In Paris, where Sigmund Freud was brought, he was met by Prince George and Marie Bonaparte. Under Freud's feet, from the steps of the carriage to the Rolls-Royce, a red velvet carpet was laid, along which Maria's grandfather Napoleon once walked, returning to Paris after the victory at Austerlitz. Tears flowed from Freud's eyes. After staying with Marie Bonaparte, he went to England.
In 1923, Freud was operated on for oral cancer. A terrible prosthesis and excruciating pain make life unbearable. Freud is stoic about illness.
He determined his end himself: on September 23, 1939, Freud's attending physician, at his request, injected him with a lethal dose of morphine. Sigmund Freud died near London, Hampstead. Only his sons accompanied him on his last journey.
Freud's death left 2,300 family letters and 1,500 letters addressed to Mina. They are said to be sensational, but, according to Freud's will, they could only be made public after 2000.
- People talk about money matters with the same deceitfulness that they talk about sexual problems. In psychoanalysis, both need to be discussed with equal frankness.
- We do not choose each other by chance ... We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.
- Ideal, eternal, hatred-free love exists only between the addict and the drug.
- My world is a small island of pain floating in an ocean of indifference.
- We are never so defenseless as when we love and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of love or his love.
- Each person has desires that he does not communicate to others, and desires that he does not acknowledge even to himself.
- Why don't we fall in love with someone new every month? Because when we parted, we would have to lose a piece of our own heart.
- Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and responsibility terrifies most people.
- Every dream has at least one place where it is incomprehensible, an umbilical cord, so to speak, by which it is connected with the unknown.
- The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons he has inside.
