New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quotes

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the lines laid down by our thoughts.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual’s own intellectual operations, from the belief in the ‘omnipotence of thoughts’, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Nevertheless it may be admitted that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen a similar line of approach. Its intention is, indeed, to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the superego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id. Where id was, there ego shall be. [Wo es war, soll Ich werden.]”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis