Sigmund Freud - Father Quotes

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud
The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

Sigmund Freud
But man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father, and the gods. The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcise the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

Sigmund Freud
The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

Sigmund Freud
Judaism had been a religion of the father; Christianity became a religion of the son. The old God the Father fell back behind Christ; Christ, the Son, took his place, just as every son had hoped to do in primeval times.

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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Sigmund Freud
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Sigmund Freud