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Dream Quotes by Sigmund Freud

40 Dream quotes by Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud describes dreams as windows into the mind’s hidden wishes and fears. He says they can be wild, yet they often show what we truly want, and he offers a method to interpret them. The quotes also note that we must own the darker thoughts that appear in dreams.

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dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

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An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

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Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

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“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.”

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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

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The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

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“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”

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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

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“A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").”

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I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there…

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters…

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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of…

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The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses…

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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically…

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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals…

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“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we…

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Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of…

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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are…

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To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us…

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It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and…

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“The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions . This is simply disregarded. To…

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As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,…

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“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley…

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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the…

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“dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes. Nor will it seem a matter of chance…

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“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which…

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“Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly,…

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“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its…

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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

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Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling.

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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

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“The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of…

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I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the…

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them?…

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“Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting…

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“And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand…

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