Sigmund Freud

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Sigmund Freud

Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences.

Sigmund Freud

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Sigmund Freud

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Sigmund Freud

So far we have mainly been concerned with probing after the hidden meaning of dreams, the route we should take to discover it, and the means the dream-work has employed to hide it.

Sigmund Freud

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Sigmund Freud

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood – the time when he was his own ideal.

Sigmund Freud

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Sigmund Freud