Sigmund Freud

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

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

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore read more

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.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown read more

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their read more

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

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be read more

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.