Sigmund Freud Quotes
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Translated by James Strachey, W. W. Norton & Company, 1961, p. 69.
This was a very unusual assertion for Germany where traditionally the Germans had seen themselves as a separate race and often the “master race.” Herder wrote this 50 years before Darwin and 150 years before we had thee scientific proof that race was a meaningless concept and all humans alive today are of the same species. Herder also criticized the historical German persecution of the Jews.
1st Baron Macaulay
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.