Sigmund Freud

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of read more

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage

My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage

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

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

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

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly read more

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.