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Sigmund Freud on Love

1856–1939 Austria

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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

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

Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Letter to Carl Jung (1906)

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state — admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological — in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.

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