“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions . This is simply disregarded. To… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes. Nor will it seem a matter of chance… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them?… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
