Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939
1920 portrait from the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
Born: 6 May 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austria
Died: 23 September 1939, London, England
Sigi's mother was twenty years younger than his father, younger than his step-brother, and Sigmund was an uncle on the day he was born. After the recession of 1865 the family moved to Leipzig, then Vienna, where Freud graduated from gymnasium with honors and went on to Universität Wien. He spent four weeks dissecting eels attempting to locate the testicles, after publishing his failure he switched to "psychodynamics" and searched for hidden sexual urges in humans. For all the cracks that have been made about his apparent obsession with mothers and sex, at least some of what he had to say makes sense.
Biography from Wikipedia and Dr. C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University
Sigmund Freud quotes:
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- A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
- A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
- A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
- Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.
- Anatomy is destiny.
- At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
- Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
- Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
- Devout believers are safe-guarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of building a personal one.
- Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
- From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
- Great revolutions in science have a common denominator: They knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our conviction about our previous conviction about our own self-importance.
- 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 fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
- Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness.
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