The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols Quotes

“In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“We should make it a rule not to seek to impose hypnotic treatment on any patient. A prejudice is widespread among the public (actually supported by some eminent, but in this matter inexperienced, physicians) that hypnosis is a dangerous operation. If we sought to impose hypnosis on someone who believed this assertion, we should probably be interrupted, after no more than a few minutes, by disagreeable occurrences, which would arise from the patient's anxiety and his distressing feeling of garded as results of hypnosis.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“Anyone who sets about hypnotizing half sceptically, who may perhaps seem comical to himself in this situation, and who reveals by his expression, his voice and his bearing that he expects nothing from the experiment, will have no reason to be surprised at his failures, and should rather leave this method of treatment to other physicians who are able to practise it without feeling damaged in their medical dignity, since they have convinced themselves, by experience and reading, of the reality and importance of hypnotic influence”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“They love their delusions as they love themselves.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“We possess no criterion which enables us to distinguish exactly between a psychical process and a physiological one, between an act occurring in the cerebral cortex and one occurring in the sub-cortical substance; for 'consciousness', whatever that may be, is not attached to every activity of the cerebral cortex, nor is it always attached in an equal degree to any particular one of its activities; it is not a thing which is bound up with any locality in the nervous system.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols