Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939
Portrait by Max Halberstadt from the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive (1922)
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
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- A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. permalink
Sigmund Freud - A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness. permalink
Sigmund Freud - Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905) - A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love. permalink
Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) - A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer. permalink
Sigmund Freud - letter to William Fless (1895) - 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. permalink
Sigmund Freud - A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. permalink
Sigmund Freud - A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. permalink
Sigmund Freud - A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. permalink
Sigmund Freud - "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" (1937) - A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist. permalink
Sigmund Freud - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) - A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable. permalink
Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (1927) - A woman should soften but not weaken a man. permalink
Sigmund Freud - Aggressiveness was not created by property. It reigned almost without limit in primitive times, when property was still very scanty, and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal, anal form; it forms the basis of every relation of affection and love among people (with the single exception, perhaps, of the mother's relations to her male child). permalink
Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) - All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. permalink
Sigmund Freud - America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. permalink
Sigmund Freud - America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen ... but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. permalink
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