Sigmund Freud

Austria
6 May 1856 // 23 Sep 1939
Neurologist / Psychiatrist

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life
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 goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice
The ego is not master in its own house
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity
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