“ If we call childhood happy because it does not yet know sexual desire, we must not forget how abundant a source of disappointment and self-denial, and thus of dream stimulation, the other of the great life-impulses may become for it. ”
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). copy citation
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Source | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Topic | disappointment childhood |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by A. A. Brill |
| Weblink | http://www.bartleby.com/285/3.html |
Context
“the fact that berries appeared in it twice was a demonstration against the domestic sanitary regulations, and was based on the circumstance, by no means overlooked by her, that the nurse ascribed her indisposition to an over-plentiful consumption of strawberries; she thus in the dream took revenge for this opinion which was distasteful to her. 2 14
If we call childhood happy because it does not yet know sexual desire, we must not forget how abundant a source of disappointment and self-denial, and thus of dream stimulation, the other of the great life-impulses may become for it. 3 Here is a second example showing this. My nephew of twenty-two months had been given the task of congratulating me upon my birthday, and of handing me, as a present, a little basket of cherries, which at that time of the year were not yet in season.”
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