Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I'm dreaming of my cat . . .

Today is the birthday of Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23,1939), neurologist and psychiatrist. He is better known as Sigmund Freud , the Father of Psychoanalysis. He was fascinated with the unconscious and dreams. Sigmund Freud founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go." - Sigmund Freud


"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

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud

"The ego is not master in its own house." - Sigmund Freud

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Sigmund Freud

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