The quotations of

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis

1856–1939

24 quotes, most often on Love, Anti-Religion and Religion.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.
Letter to Carl Jung (1906), as quoted in Freud and Man’s Soul (1984) by Bruno Bettelheim
- Love
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12
- Courage
- Love
Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
“Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6” (1924), p. 183
- Love
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 5, as translated by James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961)
- Enemies
- Love
Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that “I” and “you” are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by Joan Riviere (1961)
- Love

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