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1856–1939 Austria
Sigmund Freud ([ˈziːgmʊnt ˈfrɔʏ̯t]; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He was the father of Anna Freud, the grandfather of Sir Clement Freud and Lucian Freud, and the uncle of Edward Bernays.
Austria Academics Non-fiction authors Physicians Psychiatrists Also known as: Freud, Freud, Sigmund, Freudian
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...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
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Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own
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Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar.
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The mind is like an iceberg.
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I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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I don't rack my brains much over the subject of good and evil, but, on average, I haven't discovered much 'good' in men. Based on what I know of them, they are for the most part nothing but scoundrels.
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The idea of a God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshiped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.
Misattributed Summary of Freud's view found in Karen Armstrong's 'A History of God (1993)
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