Freud Quotes

“His sister-in-law Minna Bernays, who joined the Freud household in late 1895, was his valued companion in conversations, on walks, on trips. Freud could tell Fliess that women had never replaced the male comrade for him, but he was visibly susceptible to them.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“The neurotic may labor to escape his hostile and destructive feelings against loved persons by converting his impermissible hatreds into exaggerated affection.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“Four days later, on Christmas Day, it was all over. Abraham was forty-eight.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“believe,” said Stefan Zweig in 1929, trying to sum up Freud’s influence, “that the revolution you have called forth in the psychological and philosophical and the whole moral structure of our world greatly outweighs the merely therapeutic part of your discoveries.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“Would you like to earn £1,000 a year as a psycho-analyst? We can show you how to do it. Take eight postal lessons from us at four guineas a course!”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“Anger, too, was a defense against Freud’s message.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“liked to think, he had battled illusions; to acknowledge his inner temperature was part of his long warfare against lies, against bland surfaces, against taking wishes for realities. He was often cold now, even in warm weather. There were moments when he could report”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“read, and his last book was Balzac’s mysterious tale of the magical shrinking skin, La Peau de chagrin.”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“He commented to me,” Schur remembers, “how fortunate he was, that he has found so many valuable friends.” Anna had just left the room, which”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“commented on Freud’s unvarying courtesy: he inquired after others, and never showed signs of impatience or irritability. He would not be infantilized by his disease. On August 13, his nephew Harry”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time

“parted from Freud, aware how much Freud disliked emotional displays, he spoke lightly about travel plans. Freud, Sachs records, understood”
― Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time