Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological, to play such an important part in civilized life. If one were to yield to…

Quote by Sigmund Freud

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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are...

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are...

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us...

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us...

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced...

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced...

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is...

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is...

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes...

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes...

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no...

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no...

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom...

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom...

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy...

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy...

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it...

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it...

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's...

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's...

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the...

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the...

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it...

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it...

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all...

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all...