Quotes from Sigmund Freud

Here we may be assisted by the idea that a defence against an unwelcome internal process will be modelled upon the defence adopted against an external stimulus, that the ego wards off internal and external dangers alike along identical lines.

Wenn man einem Menschen alles verziehen hat, ist man mit ihm fertig.

Disimulan en la vida social sus estados patológicos mientras les es posible y sólo recurren al médico en estadios muy avanzados de su enfermedad, estadios tales como aquellos que en una tuberculosis excluyen ya el ingreso en un sanatorio.

nadie es responsable de sus sentimientos y que su conducta y la enfermedad contraída bajo el peso de tales circunstancias constituían un alto testimonio de su moralidad.

Children do not as yet recognize or, at any rate, lay such exaggerated stress upon the gulf that separates human beings from the animal world.

There are nearly always residual phenomena, a partial hanging-back. When an open-handed Maecenas surprises us by some isolated trait of miserliness, or when a person who is consistently over-kind suddenly indulges in a hostile action, such 'residual phenomena' are invaluable for genetic research. They show us that these praise-worthy and precious qualities are based on compensation and overcompensation which, as was to have been expected, have not been absolutely and fully successful.

inquietud que tan a menudo acompaña los incesantes dolores de la reflexión.

Cualquiera que despierto se comportase como lo hiciera en sueños sería tomado por loco.

Um trauma teria de ser definido como um acréscimo da excitação no sistema nervoso, que este é incapaz de fazer dissipar-se adequadamente pela reação motora. Um ataque histérico talvez deva ser considerado como uma tentativa de completar a reação ao trauma.

a mí mismo me causa singular impresión el comprobar que mis historiales clínicos carecen, por decirlo así, del severo sello científico, y presentan más bien un aspecto literario.

El trabajo de Charcot devolvió primeramente a este tema su dignidad y dio fin a las irónicas sonrisas con las que se acogían las lamentaciones de las pacientes.

Of all the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that have supposedly been surmounted there is not one whose residues do not live on among us to-day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultural society. What has once come to life clings tenaciously to its existence. One feels inclined to doubt sometimes whether the dragons of primaeval days are really extinct.

Marea majoritate a ocultistilor nu sunt manati de setea de cunoastere, de senzatia de rusine ca stiinta a omis atata timp sa ia cunostinta de problemele de netagaduit si nici de necesitatea sa-i cucereasca noi domenii fenomenale. Ei sunt mai degraba persoane convinse care cauta confirmari, care vor sa aiba o justificare, pentru a-si marturisi credinta.

Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.

I cannot discover this oceanic feeling in myself. It is not easy to deal scientifically with feelings

Si tengo el deseo de ver desnuda a una mujer, mi padre morirá.» El afecto penoso toma claramente un matiz inquietante y supersticioso y da ya origen a impulsos tendentes a hacer algo para alejar la desgracia, tales como se impondrán luego en las ulteriores medidas de protección.

The aetiology of every neurotic disturbance is, after all, a mixed one. It is a question either of the instincts being excessively strong — that is to say, recalcitrant to taming by the ego — or of the effects of early (i.e. premature) traumas which the immature ego was unable to master. As a rule there is a combination of both factors, the constitutional and the accidental.

Anatomy is destiny, and it is indeed grim destiny that a man who wishes to impose his will on a woman often has the means of physical force available to him. The same is not generally true in reverse. This biological fact of nature is not fair. But there is no fairness in nature. There is only nature in nature.

My gynecologist said my pussy looks weird.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

el sujeto entraña pensamientos de los que nada sabe; esto es, como una percepción endopsíquica de lo reprimido.

In states of acute crisis analysis is to all intents and purposes unusable. The ego's whole interest is taken up by the painful reality and it withholds itself from analysis, which is attempting to go below the surface and uncover the influences of the past.

Zwei Juden treffen sich im Eisenbahnwagen einer galizischen Station. 'Wohin fahrst du?, fragt der eine. 'Nach Krakau,, ist die Antwort. 'Sieh' her, was du für Lügner bist, , braust der andere auf. 'Wenn du sagst, du fahrst nach Krakau, willst du doch, dass ich glauben soll, du fahrst nach Lemberg. Nun weiss ich aber, dass du wirklich fahrst nach Krakau. Also warum lügst du?

Freud spunea candva referitor la religie: Intreaga afacere este atat de evident infantila, atat de departe de realitate, incat oricine cu o atitudine de simpatie si compasiune pentru omenire, va resimti o mare durere gandindu-se ca o majoritate a muritorilor, nu se va ridica niciodata deasupra acestei viziuni despre viata.