Sigmund Freud Quote

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.


On his seventieth birthday (1926); as quoted in The Liberal Imagination (1950) by Lionel Trilling


The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.