Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality

Quote by Sigmund Freud

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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes...

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes...

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls...

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to...

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to...

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home

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...

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...

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground...

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground...

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been...

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been...

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

If you can't do it, give up!

If you can't do it, give up!