Quotes by Freud, Sigmund

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of >>

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no >>

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk ab >>

Quotations about Neurosis

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefor >>

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world' >>

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, espec >>

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Freud, Sigmund