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Malaise dans la civilisation
Sigmund Freud
Pourquoi la guerre ?
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud citations célèbres
Citations propres, Sur le rêve, 1900
Citation de Moïse et le monothéisme , page 207.
“L'éthique est la restriction des pulsions.”
Citation de L'homme moise et la religion monothéiste, page 219, Triebeinschränkung.
“Il est absurde de se glorifier de ses ancêtres, j'aime mieux être moi-même un aïeul.”
Citation de L'interprétation des rêves, page 369.
Sigmund Freud Citations
Malaise dans la civilisation, 1929
Citations propres, , 1929
Le but d'Éros est de bâtir des ensembles de plus en plus grands alors que celui de Thanatos est une force de déliaison.
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Citations propres, Actuelles sur la guerre et la mort, 1915
Citation de Malaise dans la culture, PUF, Quadrige, page 73.
Totem et tabou
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
112, L'Amour fou/Gallimard-Folio
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Citations propres, Totem et tabou
Le Guen, 1992
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Malaise dans la civilisation, 1929
Citations d'autres auteurs le concernant
Totem et tabou
Citations propres, Totem et tabou
L'émotion éthique dériverait de la violence et des pulsions de mort.
Citations propres, Malaise dans la civilisation, 1929
Citations propres, Pourquoi la guerre ?
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“La vie psychique est un champ de bataille et une arène où luttent des tendances opposées”
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: Citations en anglais
“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.”
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2; as translated by James Strachey, p.63

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (15 October 1897), as quoted in Origins of Psychoanalysis
1890s
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Wer verliebt ist, ist demütig. Wer liebt, hat sozusagen ein Stück seines Narzißmus eingebüßt.
"Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6" (1924), p. 183
1920s
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2, as translated by James Strachey, p.62
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by Joan Riviere (1961)
Contexte: Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state — admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological — in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Contexte: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.
“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 7
Summary of Freud's view found in Karen Armstrong's 'A History of God' (1993), p. 409
Misattributed
“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
1910s
“I will cure all the incurable nervous cases and through you I shall be healthy”
Letter to Martha Bernays, after receiving a travel grant he had been having dreams of receiving (20 June 1885)
1880s
Contexte: Princess, my little Princess,
Oh, how wonderful it will be! I am coming with money and staying a long time and bringing something beautiful for you and then go on to Paris and become a great scholar and then come back to Vienna with a huge, enormous halo, and then we will soon get married, and I will cure all the incurable nervous cases and through you I shall be healthy and I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy — and "if they haven't died, they are still alive today."
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.”
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905) Ch. 2 : The First Dream
1900s
Source: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Contexte: He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6
Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939
Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey, p.25
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
1910s
Source: Quoting Plato, as translated by Abraham Arden Brill, "The Interpretation of Dreams" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Freud_-_The_interpretation_of_dreams.djvu/511 (1913 edition), p.493
Source: Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents