Quotes from Sigmund Freud

No podemos sino atenernos a la conclusión de que en la vida psíquica la conservación de lo pretérito es la regla más bien que una curiosa excepción.

Das Ich sei zuallererst ein körperliches und werde durchzogen von Triebkräften, die entlang von körperlichen Vorgängen ihre Organisation erfahren.

In language differing only slightly from current psychoanalytic terminology, Crawley declared that each individual is separated from others by a taboo of personal isolation... a narcissism of minor differences.

repression—which we must carefully note is not a suspension. The excitations in question are produced as usual but are prevented from attaining their aim by psychic hindrances, and are driven off into many other paths until they express themselves in a symptom.

Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.

The details of the process by which repression changes a possibility of pleasure into a source of 'pain' are not yet fully understood, or are not yet capable of clear presentation, but it is certain that all neurotic 'pain' is of this kind, is pleasure which cannot be experienced as such.

During sleep I took the dream-images as real owing to my mental habit (which cannot be put to sleep) of assuming the existence of an external world with which I contrast my own ego.

Now when the child grows up and finds that he is destined to remain a child for ever, and that he can never do without protection against unknown and mighty powers, he invests these with the traits of the father-figure; he creates for himself the gods, of whom he is afraid, whom he seeks to propitiate, and to whom he nevertheless entrusts the task of protecting him.

Je vous montrerai que toute votre culture antérieure et toutes les habitudes de votre pensée ont dû faire de vous inévitablement des adversaires de la psychanalyse, et je vous dirai ce que vous devez vaincre en vous-même pour surmonter cette hostilité instinctive.

How we who have little belief envy those who are convinced of the existence of a Supreme Power, for whom the world holds no problems because He Himself has created all its institutions!

Therefore, let us not undervalue small signs; perhaps by means of them we will succeed in getting on the track of greater things.

Ben her ÅŸeyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden oluÅŸan bir varl?k deÄŸil ayn? zamanda bir yüzeyin yans?mas?d?r." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 50

A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken.

The act of eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union.

Ben'de yaln?zca en derin olanlar deÄŸil en yüce olanlar da bilinçsiz kalabilir demek zorunday?z. Böylelikle, en baÅŸta bilinçli Ben hakk?nda söylediÄŸimiz ÅŸey; onun her ÅŸeyden önce bir Beden-Ben'i olduÄŸu bilgisi, bize sergileniyormuÅŸ gibidir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 52

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

The threat to the conditions of his existence through the actual or expected arrival of a new child, the fear of the loss in care and love which is connected with this event, cause the child to become thoughtful and sagacious. Corresponding with the history of this awakening, the first problem with which it occupies itself is not the question as to the difference between the sexes, but the riddle: from where do children come?

Vicdan?n talepleriyle Ben'in yetenekleri aras?ndaki gerilim, 'suçluluk duygusu' olarak alg?lan?r. Toplumsal duygular da, diÄŸer duygularla özdeÅŸ biçimde Ben-ülküsü temeline dayan?rlar." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 67

Pues allí donde el amor despierta, muere el yo, déspota, sombrío. (Observaciones psicoanalíticas sobre un caso de paranoia (Caso "Schreber")

Ben ile O aras?ndaki ayr?m da çok kat? olarak ele al?nmamal?; unutmayal?m ki Ben, O'nun özel bir biçimde ayr?mlaÅŸm?? bir k?sm?d?r." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 69

Another friend of mine, whose insatiable scientific curiosity has impelled him to the most out-of-the-way researches and to the acquisition of encyclopaedic knowledge, has assured me that the Yogi by their practices of withdrawal from the world, concentrating attention on bodily functions, peculiar methods of breathing, actually are able to produce new sensations and diffused feelings in themselves which he regards as regressions to primordial, deeply buried mental states.

El hecho de que uno entable correspondencia con el ausente, con quien no puede hablar, no es menos natural que el de tratar de hacerse entender por escrito cuando uno ha perdido la voz.

DüÅŸmanl???n hiçbir doyum ihtimali yoktur, bu yüzden – yani ekonomik nedenlerden ötürü – daha fazla doyum, yani boÅŸal?m olana?? sunan sevgi yakla??m?yla yer deÄŸiÅŸtirir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 77

Thought is action in rehearsal.