The Major Works of Sigmund Freud
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“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. By words one of us can give to another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.” (Page 450)
“The little brother was correctly recognized by Stekel as the penis. To play with or to beat a little child is often the dream’s representation of masturbation.” (Page 284)
“you would apply these tests again, the possible motives of the authors and the agreement to be found between them.” (Page 451)
“The whole thing is so patently infantile, so incongruous with reality, that to one whose attitude to humanity is friendly it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.” (Page 771)
“There is, in fact, a path from phantasy back again to reality, and that is—art. The artist has also an introverted disposition and has not far to go to become neurotic.” (Page 600)
- Title: The Major Works of Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 54
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Psychoanalysis
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW54
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:49Z