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«...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
«Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measures?There are three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitute satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it.»
«I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.»
«The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us / of becoming happy / is not attainable: yet we may not / nay, cannot / give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.»
«This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
«Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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«It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the night dreams are just as much a wish fulfillment as day dreams.»
«A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
«It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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