Quote by Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it,

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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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. – Sigmund Freud

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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. – Sigmund Freud

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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. – Sigmund Freud

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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

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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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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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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. – Charles James Fox

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