"Civilization and Its Discontents" Quotes
Freud explores the conflict between individual desires and societal expectations in this influential work of psychology.
psychology | 127 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
The narcissism of small differences is the key to understanding why people are so ready to kill others and so reluctant to kill themselves.
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle.
The sense of guilt has a compulsive character, and one may even say, an obsessional quality.
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘Creation’.
The ego is not master in his own house. It is led by the id.
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced if only one true religion existed, it would not be so intolerant.
The purpose of life is to replace an unconscious satisfaction with a conscious one.
