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Sigmund Freud Quotes

Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Au... more Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Austria, Freud developed key theories on the unconscious mind, the significance of dreams, and the structure of personality. His influential work established concepts such as the id, ego, and superego, shaping the field of psychology. less
"One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."
Tags: Love, Human nature, Psychology, Emotions, Affection
"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
Tags: Personal growth, Self-discovery, Human nature, Self-reflection, Struggle
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
Tags: Philosophy, Spirituality, Ethics, Morality, Religion
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
Tags: Motivation, Personal growth, Love, Relationships, Happiness
"The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits."
Tags: Problem solving, Emotional resilience, Coping mechanisms, Crisis management, Personal challenges
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
Tags: Motivation, Love, Relationships, Personal development, Psychology
"If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends."
Tags: Mental health, Fear, Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, Emotional response
"Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation."
Tags: Personal growth, Self-awareness, Psychology, Self-deception, Self-understanding
"Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet."
Tags: Personal growth, Dreams, Mental strength, Inner truth, Reality check
"The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought."
Tags: Psychology, Unconscious mind, Dream analysis, Dream interpretation, Subconscious mind
"The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream."
Tags: Psychology, Ideas, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious mind, Dream analysis
"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."
Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Subconscious, Psychoanalysis, Censorship
"Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes."
Tags: Psychoanalysis, Emotional healing, Unconscious mind, Dream analysis, Human psychology
"Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires."
Tags: Mental health, Dreams, Psychoanalysis, Dream interpretation, Subconscious mind
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."
Tags: Personal growth, Human nature, Identity, Self-reflection, Self-identity
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