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1. "A woman should soften but not weaken a man." ~ Sigmund Freud

2. "You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father." ~ Sigmund Freud

3. "I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind." ~ Sigmund Freud

4. "Time spent with cats is never wasted." ~ Sigmund Freud

5. "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." ~ Sigmund Freud

6. "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." ~ Sigmund Freud

7. "A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it." ~ Sigmund Freud

8. "The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life." ~ Sigmund Freud

9. "Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know." ~ Sigmund Freud

10. "we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)" ~ Sigmund Freud

11. "I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me." ~ Sigmund Freud

12. "Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate." ~ Sigmund Freud

13. "Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it." ~ Sigmund Freud

14. "Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions." ~ Sigmund Freud

15. "The madman is a dreamer awake" ~ Sigmund Freud

16. "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." ~ Sigmund Freud

17. "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." ~ Sigmund Freud

18. "A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world." ~ Sigmund Freud

19. "All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur." ~ Sigmund Freud

20. "The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality." ~ Sigmund Freud

21. "In my Future of an Illusion I was concerned [...] with what the ordinary man understands by his religion, that system of doctrines and pledges that on the one hand explains the riddle of this world to him with an enviable completeness, and on the other assures him that a solicitous Providence is watching over him and will make up to him in a future existence for any shortcomings in this ife. The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other from but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a one could understand the needs of the sons of men, or be softened by their prayers and placated by the signs of their remorse. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so incongruous with reality, that to one whose attitude to humanity is friendly it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise about this view of life." ~ Sigmund Freud

22. "La ciencia moderna aún no ha producido un medicamento tranquilizador tan eficaz como lo son unas pocas palabras bondadosas." ~ Sigmund Freud

23. "Nella nostra concezione moderna del mondo ?concezione scientifica non ancora definitivamente conclusa? la superstizione è un po' fuori luogo; mentre era ammessa nella concezione di epoche prescientifiche, poiché ne era un complemento logico.Aveva dunque relativamente ragione l'antico Romano, che rinunciava ad un progetto importante perché il volo degli uccelli era sfavorevole; agiva in modo conforme alle sue premesse. E se rinunciava al suo progetto perché aveva inciampato sulla soglia della sua porta, si rivelava superiore a noi increduli, si rivelava miglior psicologo di noi. Il fatto d'inciampare denotava l'esistenza di un dubbio, di un'opposizione interiore a questo progetto, la cui forza poteva annullare quella della sua intenzione al momento della realizzazione. In effetti si può essere sicuri del successo completo solo quando tutte le energie psichiche tendono al fine desiderato." ~ Sigmund Freud

24. "Algi , Ben için, O'da güdülerin oynadigi role karsilik gelir. Tutkulari içinde barindiran O'nun tersine, Ben akil ve sagduyu olarak adlandirdiklarimizi temsil eder. Tüm bunlar herkesçe bilinen popüler farklarla örtüsür, ama yalnizca ortalama ya da ideal durumda dogru olarak kabul edilmelidir."sayfa 49" ~ Sigmund Freud

25. "his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential-—popularizing such notions as the unconscious, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism — while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature (Kafka), film, Marxist and feminist theories, literary criticism, philosophy, and psychology. However, his theories remain controversial and widely disputed. Source: Wikipedia" ~ Sigmund Freud

26. "One is very crazy when in love." ~ Sigmund Freud

27. "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces." ~ Sigmund Freud

28. "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy." ~ Sigmund Freud

29. "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity." ~ Sigmund Freud

30. "Where id is, there shall ego be" ~ Sigmund Freud

31. "Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young." ~ Sigmund Freud

32. "Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it." ~ Sigmund Freud

33. "Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it." ~ Sigmund Freud

34. "public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self." ~ Sigmund Freud

35. "Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world)." ~ Sigmund Freud

36. "Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power." ~ Sigmund Freud

37. "dream is the dreamer's own psychical act." ~ Sigmund Freud

38. "The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them." ~ Sigmund Freud

39. "Conservatism" ~ Sigmund Freud

40. "Ben her seyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden olusan bir varlik degil ayni zamanda bir yüzeyin yansimasidir."Sigmund Freud, ‘Ben ve O', sayfa 50" ~ Sigmund Freud

41. "Vicdanin talepleriyle Ben'in yetenekleri arasindaki gerilim, ‘suçluluk duygusu' olarak algilanir. Toplumsal duygular da, diger duygularla özdes biçimde Ben-ülküsü temeline dayanirlar."Sigmund Freud, ‘Ben ve O', sayfa 67" ~ Sigmund Freud

42. "Biyoloji tarafindan destekelnen kuramsal kabuller temelinde, organik hayati cansiz duruma geri döndürme görevi verilen bir ‘ölüm güdüsü' varsayimi ileri sürmüstük, öte yandan Eros; hayati, parçaciklara bölünmüs canli maddeyi karmasiklastirmak ve durmaksizin bir araya getirmek, bu arada, tabii ki onu korumak hedefine yönelir. Her iki güdü de yasamin ortaya çikmasiyla bozulmus bir durumun yeniden olusturulmasina çalisirken, kelimenin en dar anlamiyla tutucu davranirlar. O halde yasamin ortaya çikisi, yasamayi sürdürmenin ve ayni zamanda ölüme yönelen çabanin sebebi olmaktaydi; yasamin kendisi de bu iki çaba arasindaki mücadele ve uzlasma idi. Böylece yasamin kökenine iliskin soru kozmolojik bir soru olarak kalirken, hayatin hedefi ve amaci sorunu ikili bir sekilde yanitlanmis oluyor."Sigmund Freud, ‘Ben ve O', sayfa 72" ~ Sigmund Freud

43. "Ancak klinik gözlemler bize nefretin sadece beklenmedik siklikta sevginin yoldasi oldugunu, insan iliskilerinde sevginin bir öncülü oldugunu söylemekle kalmiyor, kimi durumlarda nefretin sevgiye ve sevginin de nefrete dönüsebildigini gösteriyor. Sayet bu dönüsüm sadece zamana bagli ardil bir yer-degistirmeden ibaret degilse, birbirine ters yönlerde seyreden fizyolojik süreçleri öngören, erotik güdülerle ölüm güdüleri arasindaki o temel ayrimin dayandigi zemin kaymis olur."Sigmund Freud, ‘Ben ve O', sayfa 76" ~ Sigmund Freud

44. "Normal, bilinçli suçluluk duygusunun (vicdan) yorumunda herhangi bir zorluk yoktur. Ben ile Ben ülküsü arasindaki gerilime dayanir, Ben'in kendi elestirel yaninca yargilanisinin ifadesidir."Sigmund Freud, ‘Ben ve O', sayfa 89" ~ Sigmund Freud

45. "instanced" ~ Sigmund Freud

46. "Yet we see, on the contrary, that many acts are most successfully carried out when they are not the objects of particularly concentrated attention, and that the mistakes occur just at the point where one is most anxious to be accurate—where a distraction of the necessary attention is therefore surely least permissible. One could then say that this is the effect of the "excitement," but we do not understand why the excitement does not intensify the concentration of attention on the goal that is so much desired." ~ Sigmund Freud

47. "therapeutic" ~ Sigmund Freud

48. "days" ~ Sigmund Freud

49. "Mit Sicherheit weiß ich nur das eine, daß die Werturteile der Menschen unbedingt von ihren Glückswünschen geleitet werden, also ein Versuch sind, ihre Illusionen mit Argumenten zu stützen. Die Schicksalsfrage der Menschenart scheint mir zu sein, ob und in welchem Maße es ihrer Kulturentwicklung gelingen wird, der Störung des Zusammenlebens durch den menschlichen Aggressions- und Selbstvernichtungstrieb Herr zu werden." ~ Sigmund Freud

50. "Lo mejor es siempre enemigo de lo bueno" ~ Sigmund Freud

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