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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has shaped the mind of the 20th century. Commonly referred to as ‘the father of psychoanalysis’, his work has been highly influential - popularizing such notions as the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism - while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as philosophy, and psychology, literature and film.
 
The book that made his reputation in the profession, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), is an indefinable masterpiece… part autobiography, part dream analysis, part theory of the mind, and part history of contemporary Vienna. But perhaps the most significant contribution Freud made to Western thought was his argument for the existence of an unconscious mind. Most importantly, Freud popularized the ‘talking-cure’, an idea that a person could solve problems simply by talking them over, something that was almost unheard of in the 19th century. Even though many psychotherapists today tend to reject the specifics of Freud’s theories, this basic mode of treatment comes largely from his work. When Freud was 81, the Nazis took over Austria, and after some reluctance, he emigrated to England with his wife and his favorite daughter and colleague Anna “to die in freedom.”

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

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“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

“Anatomy is destiny.”

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’”

                           

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

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

- Sigmund Freud  (1856-1939)

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