"Now it is nothing but torture."
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"There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed."
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"Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life."
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"At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory."
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"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."
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"I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness."
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"Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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"[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real."
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"The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death."
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"It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you."
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"It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis."
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"My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it."
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"The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization."
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"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
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"Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."
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"Where id was, there ego shall be."
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"The world is no nursery."
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"It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too"
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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."
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