The Freud/Jung Letters Quotes

“If we are to take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything dies for internal reasons – becomes inorganic once again – then we shall be compelled to say that ‘the aim of all life is death’ and, looking backwards, that ‘inanimate things existed before living ones’.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“It is an honour to have plenty of enemies!”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“It has occurred to me that the ultimate basis of man's need for religion is infantile helplessness, which is so much greater in man than in animals. After infancy he cannot conceive of a world without parents and makes for him a just God and a kindly nature, the two worst anthropomorphic falsifications he could have imagined.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“In reality the ego is like the clown in the circus, who is always putting in his oar to make the audience think that whatever happens is his doing.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“Eitington, whom I met in Florence, is now here and will probably visit me soon to give me detailed impressions of Amsterdam. He seems to have taken up with some woman again. Such practice is a deterrent from theory. When I have totally overcome my libido (in the common sense), I shall undertake to write a 'Love-life of Mankind'.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters

“I am finding it very difficult; it is almost beyond my powers of presentation; the paper will probably be intelligible to no one outside our immediate circle. How bungled our reproductions are, how wretchedly we dissect the great art works of psychic nature! Unfortunately this paper in turn is becoming too bulky. It just pours out of me, and even so it's inadequate, incomplete and therefore untrue. A wretched business.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Freud/Jung Letters