Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Sigmund FreudThe price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Sigmund FreudSexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
Sigmund FreudIt is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
Sigmund FreudAgainst the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
Sigmund Freud