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

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• 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.

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

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

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

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• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

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• Where id was, there ego shall be.

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• We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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• Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

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• The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

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

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• If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

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  We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

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

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

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• Anatomy is destiny.

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• Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

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• A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

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• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

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• 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.

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Birth:	6th May, 1856
Death:	23rd September, 1939
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Scientist

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