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'''[[w:Sigmund Freud|Sigmund Freud]]''' (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939; [ˈziːgmʊnt ˈfrɔʏ̯t]) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the [[psychoanalytic ]] [[school ]] of [[psychology]].
== Sourced ==
* Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle [[girl ]] who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has [[cocaine ]] in his [[body]].** [[Letter ]] to his fiancée, Martha Bernays (June 2, 1884)
* '''[[Being ]] entirely honest with oneself is a [[good ]] exercise.'''** ''Origins of [[Psychoanalysis]]'' Letter to [[w:Wilhelm Fliess|Wilhelm Fliess]] (October 15, 1897)
* I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further [[enlightenment]].
** Letter to [[w:Wilhelm Fliess|Wilhelm Fliess]] (25 March 1898)''
* And now, the main [[thing]]! As far as I can see, my next [[work ]] will be called "[[Human ]] Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last [[word ]] it may be granted to say--the last and the most profound.
** Letter to [[w:Wilhelm Fliess|Wilhelm Fliess]] (7 August 1901)
* A man's [[heterosexuality ]] will not put up with any [[homosexuality]], and vice versa.** ''[[Analysis ]] Terminable and Interminable''
* 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.** ''[[Complete ]] [[Psychological ]] Works'', [[Dora ]] (1905)
* [[Conscience ]] is the [[internal ]] [[perception ]] of the [[rejection ]] of a [[particular ]] [[wish ]] operating within us.** ''Complete Psychological Works'', [[Totem ]] and [[Taboo ]] (1905)
* At bottom God is [[nothing ]] more than an exalted [[father]].** ''Complete Psychological Works'', [[Totem and Taboo ]] (1905)
* He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a [[secret]]. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; [[betrayal ]] oozes out of him at every pore.** ''The First [[Dream]]'' Fragment of an Analysis of a [[Case ]] of [[Hysteria ]] (1905)
* The [[psychic ]] [[development ]] of the [[individual ]] is a short [[repetition ]] of the course of development of the [[race]].** ''[[Leonardo ]] [[da Vinci]]'' (1916)
* The ego is not [[master ]] in its own house.** ''A Difficulty in the Path of [[Psycho]]-Analysis'' (1917)
* The [[unconscious ]] is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the [[conscious]]; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still [[claim ]] [[full ]] [[value ]] as a psychic [[activity]]. Properly [[speaking]], the unconscious is the [[real ]] psychic; ''its inner [[nature ]] is just as unknown to us as the [[reality ]] of the [[external ]] [[world]], and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of [[consciousness ]] as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.''
** ''Dream Psychology : Psychoanalysis For Beginners'' (1920) as translated by M. D. Eder
* When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.
** ''The Problem of [[Anxiety]]'' (1925)
* The poets and [[philosophers ]] before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the [[scientific ]] method by which the unconscious can be studied.** On his seventieth birthday (1926); from Lionel Trilling's ''The [[Liberal ]] [[Imagination]]''
* Our [[knowledge ]] of the historical worth of certain [[religious ]] doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of [[civilization]]. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious [[teachings]], as it were, as [[neurotic ]] relics, and we may now argue that the [[time ]] has probably come, as it does in an [[analytic ]] [[treatment]], for replacing the effects of [[repression ]] by the results of the [[rational ]] operation of the intellect.
** ''[[w:The Future of an Illusion|The Future of an Illusion]]'', ch. 8 (1927)
* The [[voice ]] of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic [[about ]] the [[future ]] of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.** ''The Future of an [[Illusion]]'' (1928)
* One feels inclined to say that the [[intention ]] that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”** ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]'', ch. 2 (1930)
* Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an [[illness]].** Letter to an American [[mother]]'s plea to [[cure ]] her son's homosexuality (1935)
* The Mosaic [[religion ]] had been a Father religion; [[Christianity ]] became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second [[place]]; [[Christ]], the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark [[times ]] every son had longed to do.
** ''[[w:Moses and Monotheism|Moses and Monotheism]]'' (1938)
* Man found that he was faced with the acceptance of "spiritual" forces, that is to say such forces as cannot be comprehended by the senses, particularly not by [[sight]], and yet having undoubted, even extremely strong, effects. If we may trust to [[language]], it was the movement of the air that provided the [[image ]] of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its [[name ]] from the breath of wind ([[animus]], spiritus, Hebrew: ruach = smoke). The [[idea ]] of the soul was thus [[born ]] as the spiritual [[principle ]] in the individual...Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself.** ''[[Moses ]] and [[Monotheism]]''
* Admittedly an unusual [[state]], but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological.** Referring to romantic [[love ]] in ''[[Civilization and its Discontents]]''
* A [[fear ]] of weapons is a [[sign ]] of retarded [[sexual ]] and emotional maturity.
** ''General Introduction to Psychoanalysis''
* America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
** To Ernest [[Jones ]] ("Amerika ist ein Fehler, zugegeben ein gigantischer Fehler, aber nichtsdestotrotz ein Fehler.")
* A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for [[life ]] the [[feeling ]] of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.** From [[Ernest Jones]]' ''Life and Works of Sigmund [[Freud]]'', Vol. I, ch. 1 (1953)
* ''[[Was will das Weib?]]''** '''What does a [[woman ]] [[want]]?'''** More extensive variant: '''The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the [[feminine ]] soul, is "What does a woman want?" '''** Letter to [[Marie Bonaparte]], as quoted in ''[[Sigmund Freud]]: Life and Work'' (1955) by Ernest Jones, Vol. 2, Pt. 3, Ch. 16
=== ''New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis'' (1932) ===
* Analogies prove nothing, that is quite [[true]], but they can make one feel more at home.
* One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor [[energy]], and the rider has the prerogative of determining the [[goal ]] and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less [[ideal ]] [[situation ]] in which the rider is obliged to [[guide ]] his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.** ''The Anatomy of the [[Mental ]] [[Personality]]'' (Lecture 31)
* The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve [[three ]] harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and [[demands ]] of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the [[superego]], and the id.
** ''The Anatomy of the Mental Personality'' (Lecture 31)
** ''The Anatomy of the Mental Personality'' (Lecture 31)
* '''[[Thinking ]] is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature [[figures ]] over a map before setting his troops in [[action]].'''** ''Anxiety and [[Instinctual ]] Life'' (Lecture 32)
* If one wishes to [[form ]] a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in [[mind ]] what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the [[universe]], it assures them of protection and final [[happiness ]] amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their [[thoughts ]] and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the [[whole ]] force of its [[authority]].** ''A [[Philosophy ]] of Life'' (Lecture 35)
* Religion is an attempt to get [[control ]] over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed [[inside ]] us as a result of [[biological ]] and psychological necessities.
** ''A Philosophy of Life'' (Lecture 35)
== Attributed ==
* The only unnatural sexual [[behavior ]] is none at all.
* A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of [[violence]], as would disgrace the individual.
* Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the [[psychotic ]] in some part or [[other ]] and to a greater or lesser extent.
* He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
* Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any [[separate ]] individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The [[power ]] of this [[community ]] is then set up as “right” in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as “brute force.”
* I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my [[experience ]] most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that [[ethical ]] [[doctrine ]] or to none at all.
* In the long run, nothing can withstand [[reason ]] and experience, and the [[contradiction ]] religion offers to both is palpable.
* It must be admitted that [[women ]] have but little [[sense ]] of justice, and this is no [[doubt ]] connected with the preponderance of [[envy ]] in their mental life.
* Religion... comprises a [[system ]] of wishful illusions together with a [[disavowal ]] of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful [[hallucinatory ]] confusion.
* Religion is comparable to a [[childhood ]] [[neurosis]].
* [[Sadism ]] is all [[right ]] in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
* Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
* The doctor should be opaque to his [[patients ]] and, like a [[mirror]], should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
* The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
* The [[moment ]] a man begins to question the [[meaning ]] and value of life, he is sick.
* The [[paranoid ]] is never entirely mistaken.
* The only thing about [[masturbation ]] to be ashamed of is doing it badly.
* The [[pleasure ]] of [[satisfying ]] a savage [[instinct]], undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the [[enemy ]] that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
* Sex is the [[mathematical ]] urge [[repressed]].
== About Sigmund Freud ==
* He had a sharp [[vision]]; no illusions lulled him to [[sleep ]] except for an often exaggerated [[faith ]] in his own [[ideas]].
** [[Albert Einstein]]
* Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, [[Carl Jung|Jung]] was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.
** [[Lewis Mumford]] in ''[[Interpretations ]] and Forecasts'' (1967)
* "Доктор Фрейд не только сам сидел на кокаине, он его пациентам прописывал. А потом делал свои обобщения. Кокаин — это серьезный сексуальный возбудитель. Поэтому все, что Фрейд напридумывал — все эти эдипы, сфинксы и сфинкторы — относится исключительно к душевному измерению пациента, мозги которого спеклись от кокаина в яичницу-глазунью. В таком состоянии у человека действительно остается одна проблема — что сделать раньше, трахнуть маму или грохнуть папу. Понятное дело, пока кокаин не кончится. А в те времена проблем с поставками не было. Но пока у тебя доза меньше трех граммов в день, ты можешь не бояться ни эдипова комплекса, ни всего остального, что он наоткрывал." ~ [[w:Victor Pelevin|Victor Pelevin]], ''The Sacred Book of Werewold (2004)
** [[Translation]]: Doctor Freud not only used cocaine himself, but he also prescribed it to his patients. And then he drew his generalizations. Cocaine is a strong sexual arouser. That's why everything Freud invented — all those oedipuses, sphinges and sphincters — is relevant only to a mental [[dimension ]] of a [[patient]], whose brain is turned to fried-eggs by cocaine. In such a state, one really has only one problem [[left ]] — what to do first, to screw his mother or to do away with his father. Of course, until his cocaine runs out. And in those times, there were no problems with supplies. But so long as your daily dose is less than three grams, you don't have to fear either the [[Oedipus ]] [[complex]], nor other things discovered by Freud.
*Perhaps the last [[cultural ]] fad one could still argue against was Karl [[Marx]]. But Freud—or Rawls? To argue against such persons is to grant them a premise they spend all of their effort disproving: that reason is involved in their theories. [[Ayn Rand]],The Ayn Rand Letter
Vol. IV, No. 2 November-December 1975.
* "Зигмунд Фрейд был честным учёным и психиатром. Он никогда не давал своим пациентам непроверенные медикоменты. Он делал проверки на себе и знал до мельчайших подробностей все побочные эффекты и воздействия. Кризис совремменой психиатрии вызван стремлением врачей уйти от реальности и довольствоваться отсталой книжной информацией, вместо того чтобы анализировать самих себя и экспереминтировать над своим организмом, как это делал великий психоаналитик Зигмунд Фрейд." - D. Sovushkin.
** Translation: Sigmund Freud was honest [[scientist ]] and [[psychiatrist]]. He never gave his patients unproven [[medicine]]. He made the testing on himself and he knew to lowest details all adverse effects and influences. The crisis of modern [[psychiatry ]] is caused by attempts of doctors to leave the reality and be contented with obsolete book information, instead of making the analysis of themselves and make experiments on their own organisms, like it was done by a great analytical [[psychologist ]] Sigmund Freud.
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