Quote by Sigmund Freud
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and ther

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – 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

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan

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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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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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