Sigmund Freud is one for whom the ultimate psychological reality is the system of attractions and tensions which attaches the child to parental images, and then through these to all other persons.

Sigmund Freud is one of the last representatives of Enlightenment philosophy. He genuinely believed in reason as the one strength man has and which alone could save him from confusion and decay.
Sigmund Freud has not given an explanation of the ancient myth. What he has done is to propound a new myth.


Sigmund Freud is often wrong and at times absurd. To us he is no more a person, but more of a climate of opinion.



Sigmund Freud is aware of the importance of sexual health, but did not want what sexual health entailed; the attack on certain institutions which opposed it.
Sigmund Freud is constantly claiming to be scientific, but what he gives is speculation — something prior even to the formation of an hypothesis.
Sigmund Freud is hardly to be regarded as a scientist but rather as a physician who had many novel ideas and who wrote persuasively and unusually well.

Sigmund Freud is the great Eros thinker of our time. He takes us on a journey backward in time to the birth trauma.