“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”
—-Sigmund Freud.
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Sigmund Freud: Not from a single aspiration
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.”
—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939).
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Sigmund Freud: Analogies
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud, neurologist and psychoanalyst.
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Sigmund Freud: Opposition
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud.
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Sigmund Freud: Thinking
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. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939)
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Sigmund Freud: Founder of civilization
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939).
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Sigmund Freud: Small and large matters
“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. ”
—Sigmund Freud.
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Wallace Stevens: Freudian focus
Sigmund Freud: Indisputable favourite
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“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ”
—Sigmund Freud
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Carl Jung: No recipe for living
Carl Jung (Photo credit: Psychology Pictures)
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
—Carl Jung.
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Sigmund Freud: Excremental
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The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals—inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: “Anatomy is destiny.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 11, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1957). On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love, sect. 3 (1912).
Napoleon had said, “Politics is destiny” (as reported by German poet Goethe in conversation with him in 1808).
