Dreams Quotes by Sigmund Freud

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

— Sigmund Freud

“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.”

— Sigmund Freud

An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

— Sigmund Freud

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

“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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

“his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He…

— Sigmund Freud

“One can make a compound formation of events and of places in the same way as of people, provided always that the…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

— Sigmund Freud

Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling.

— Sigmund Freud

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

“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

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

— Sigmund Freud