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 - Sigmund Freud Quotes
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 Sigmund Freud
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?'' - Sigmund Freud Quotes

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis - Sigmund Freud Quotes

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.'' - Sigmund Freud Quotes

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect. - Sigmund Freud Quotes

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

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