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Sigmund Freud Love Quotes and Sayings
#1 Civilization And Its Discontents [S]
1. We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love-object or its love.
#2 Civilization And Its Discontents [S]
2. A love that does not discriminate seems to us to lose some of its own value, since it does an injustice to its object. And secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
#3 Freud’s “On Narcissism: An Introduction
3. …a person in love is humble. A person who loves has, so to speak, forfeited a part of his narcissism, and it can only be replaced by his being loved.
#4-5 7. Betrothal [1882-1886], Book One: The Formative Years, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones [S]
4. I really get quite beside myself when I am disturbed about you. I lose at once all sense of values, and at moments a frightful dread comes over me lest you fall ill.
5. I was very crazy…One is very crazy when one is in love.
#6 Letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays, 27 June 1882
6. How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
#7 The Diary of Sigmund Freud: 1929-1939 A Record of the Final Decade [S]
7. A simple affectionate relationship, whether with little children or dogs, was a welcome and necessary rest from the concerns and complexities of society or from the intricacies of practical and theoretical psychoanalysis.
#8 The Diary of Sigmund Freud: 1929-1939 A Record of the Final Decade [S]
8. 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 in their object relations.
#9 Letter to Martha Bernays, 22 August 1883 [S]
9. Now farewell, my lovely princess. In my silence about our love please see once more the symptom of my unworried and healthy certainty of possession, and go on loving me as I will always love you, and then we will compete as to which of us can be the more loving.
#10 On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love
10. Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they cannot love.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.
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Sayings by Sigmund Freud
#1 Letter to C. G. Jung, Rome, 19 September 1907, Letters of Sigmund Freud, Selected and Edited by Ernst L. Freud, Translation: Tania and James Stern
1. One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
#2 Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming [S]
2. The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invests with large amounts of emotion—while separating it sharply from reality.
#3 Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 15 October 1897
3. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
#4 25. Character and Personality, Book Two: Years of Maturity, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones [S]
4. The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’
#5 The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume V, Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey, In Collaboration with Anna Freud, Assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson [S]
5. Dreams, then, are often most profound when they seem most crazy.
#6 The First Dream, Dora: An analysis of a case of hysteria [S]
6. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
#7 Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for beginners [S]
7. We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
#8 Jokes and The Species of the Comic, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious [S]
8. There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
#9 Chapter VI, The Future Of An Illusion [S]
9. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. But do not deceive yourself into thinking that with such arguments you are following the path of correct reasoning. If ever there was a case of facile argument, this is one.
#10 Letter to Martha Bernays, 18 August 1882, Letters of Sigmund Freud, Selected and Edited by Ernst L. Freud, Translation: Tania and James Stern [S]
10. One must not be mean with affection; what is spent of the funds is renewed by the spending itself. If they are left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.