Able Quote by Erich Fromm

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or…

— Erich Fromm

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in…

— Erich Fromm

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

— Henry Reed

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and…

— Stephen King

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an…

— Erich Fromm

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

— Sigmund Freud

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily…

— Erich Fromm

“I have always found quite useful Freud's formulation that the dream borrows building blocks from the day residue, but that for images to be…

— Irvin D. Yalom

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

— Sigmund Freud

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its…

— Erich Fromm

Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my…

— David Mamet