Sigmund Freud Father Quotations

At the bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father

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

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

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

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.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

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.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.