"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
Sigmund FreudRead
Now it is nothing but torture.
Interpretation
Freud suggests that the current state of existence can feel unbearable and painful.
This quote by Sigmund Freud reflects on the inherent struggles and sufferings of human existence. The term 'torture' implies a deep sense of torment and dissatisfaction with life, suggesting that at times, our experiences can become overwhelmingly negative, leading to a sense of despair and psychological anguish.
In practice
During a lecture on mental health, one might quote Freud to emphasize the importance of understanding psychological pain.
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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