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Sigmund Freud

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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.


— Sigmund Freud


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One is very crazy when in love.


— Sigmund Freud


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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.


— Sigmund Freud


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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.


— Sigmund Freud


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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.


— Sigmund Freud


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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.


— Sigmund Freud


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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.


— Sigmund Freud


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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.


— Sigmund Freud


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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.


— Sigmund Freud


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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.


— Sigmund Freud


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Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychiatry and across the humanities. His analysis of his own and his patients dreams as wish-fulfilments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for further elaboration of his theory of the unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind. Auden wrote in a poem dedicated to him: "to us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives".

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