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The Interpretation of Dreams quotes

Sigmund Freud

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“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“We are thus presented with a new task which had no previous existence: the task, that is, of investigating the relations between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing out the processes by which the latter...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dreams are never concerned with trivialities; we do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Psychoanalysis is justly suspicious. One of its rules reads: Whatever disturbs the continuation of the work is a resistance.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to “originate” for...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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