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Sigmund Freud: top 200 quotes
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Abreaction (n.) is the re-awaking of a traumatic experience in order to empty it of its emotional power.
Love (n.) is a state of temporary psychosis.
Love (n.) is a basic force in nature enabling adult separation between self and other (i.e. Individuation).
Love (n.) is, along with hate, an expression of a fundamental opposition between attraction and repulsion which is at the heart of physics.
Love (n.) is spoken of in four ways by freud: As a fusion between sexuality and tenderness, as libidinal energy available for culture binding, as a life instinct, and as a total life force.
Love (n.) diminishes its value if it does not discriminate. By doing an injustice to its object... and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Love (n.) is risky. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Love (n.) is the cornerstone of our humanness.
Love (n.) is the pawning of a part of one's narcissism. It thus makes one humble.
Justice (n.) is the first requisite of civilization.
Family (n.) is organized around the most damaged person in it.
Family (n.) is at the very core of individual problems.
Family (n.) was established around the agreement of the brothers of the primitive horde to set up the totemic worship of the father.
Family (n.) is the first repressing element which opens an internalization of domination and thus creates a character structure through which all later forms of repression and domination of society has taken place. Hence, the ego is shaped gradually and conditioned.
Acting out (n.) is a defense mechanism whereby one expresses thoughts one is incapable of expressing with extreme behavior such as temper tantrums or self injury.
Art (n.) is a kind of daydreaming, a form of wishful thinking which compensates for some lack in the dreamer's waking life.
Art (n.) is a special exercise of the mechanisms of repression and neurosis: Art is public dreaming.
Art (n.) is the nonobsessional, non-neurotic form of substitute satisfaction: The charm of esthetic creation does not stem from the return of the repressed.
Affect (n.) is not a representational sign (because affects are never repressed)... rather, it is a somatic conversion that continually shifts the ground of ( psychic) interpretation.
An Affect (n.) is a composite phenomenon. It is not just a physical reaction, but is closely connected with ideas, which in turn are closely connected with bodily reactions, affects, ands sensations.
Giving (n.) is necessarily a kind of asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live.
Aggression (n.) is an expression of a basic state or basic need within the individual, rather than a response to external demands.