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Sigmund Freud

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The ego is not master in its own house.


— Sigmund Freud


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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.


— Sigmund Freud


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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.


— Sigmund Freud


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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.


— Sigmund Freud


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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.


— Sigmund Freud


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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.


— Sigmund Freud


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If youth knew; if age could.


— Sigmund Freud


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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.


— Sigmund Freud


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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.


— Sigmund Freud


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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .


— 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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