Recently in my World History class, I was learning about the earlier 20th century and some of the advances of the time- and these studies brought to light an important figure in the world of psychology, Sigmund Freud. I'd learned about him previously both in my sociology course and one of my psychology courses, but since I haven't studied psychology in a little bit he had faded to the back of my mind. For those of you who don't know, Freud was a neurologist in the early 20th century and the founder of psychoanalysis- essentially, today's talk therapy.
As far as his theories about the human mind go, with time, they've been disproven by science- however, without his innovations, we may not be where we are today with our studies of the human mind. I think that as a person, he was quite interesting- and thus, I want to share a few quotes from him that I liked when researching him. I hope you enjoy. "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love." "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." “Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.” “A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”
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