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Quotes from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis — Sigmund Freud

1856–1939 Austria

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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girls clitoris.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

Where id is, there shall ego be.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: "With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe."

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

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