Sigmund Freud Quotes

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.