Sigmund Freud Development Quotations

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.