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Quote by Sigmund Freud
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, e

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

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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization
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Sigmund Freud
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud

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If you get hung up on everybody elses hang-ups, then the whole worlds going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. – Richard Brautigan

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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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