For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image