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Sigmund Freud (/frɔɪd/ FROYD; German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Become, Men, Religion, Religious

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

Considered, Dream, May, Occurring, Traumatic, Wake Up

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Impenetrable, Patient, Reality, Reason, Reveal, Turned

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Against, Defensless, Friendship, Love, Secret Love

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

Contrast, Enjoyment, Intense, Made

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

Compared, Consolation, Effect, Effects, May, Religion

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Childhood, Comparable, Neurosis, Religion, Religious

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

Coincided, Create, Emotional, Enemy, Hated, Life

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Father, Order, Dead Father, Kill, Dead

Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

Fulfillment, Ideas, Life, Mental, People, Self

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

Authority, Believe, Mistake, Religious

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Afraid, America, Failure, Grandiose, Seen, World

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Funny, Man, Should, Soften, Weaken, Women

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Ears, Funny Marriage, Listen, Talk, Wife

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Clearly, Dark, Doe, May, Timidity, Wayfarer

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Art, Feet, Psychiatry, Stand, Teaching

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Conditions, Consciousness, Idea, Ideas, Moments, Under

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Everywhere, Has Beens, Poet, Poetry By Famous Poets

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Found, Immorality, Morality, Support, Times

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

Children, Developed, Exposure, Impression, Like, Photographic

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