If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

Quote by Sigmund Freud

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until...

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until...

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...

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

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

One is very crazy when in love.

One is very crazy when in love.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one...

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one...

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...

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now...

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now...

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...

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of...

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of...

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...

The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a...

The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a...

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or...

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or...

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

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the...

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the...

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

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...

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...

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with...

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with...

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the...

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the...

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Where id was, there ego shall be.