Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist. He was the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies in the psyche through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Anatomy is destiny.

- attributed

• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

- Totem and Taboo

• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

- letter to Wilhelm Fliess, October 15, 1897

• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger, it will soon have your whole hand.

- Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

- A Philosophy of Life (Lectures in Psychoanalysis)

• Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will henceforth avoid falling ill.

- One of the Difficulties of Psychoanalysis

• I have not yet been able to answer ... the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?

- quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 2

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