Sigmund Freud Quotes


Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.


Citations

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Die Medizinische Welt, 1930. Quoted in Jones, Ernest. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 3. Basic Books, 1957, p. 62.

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
  • Born: May 6, 1856
  • Died: September 23, 1939
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Psychologist

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.