Sigmund Freud Dream Quotes

#1. At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

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

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#3. Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

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#4. I always find the same principles confirmed: the elements formed into the dream are drawn from the entire mass of the dream-thoughts, and in its relation to the dream-thoughts each one of the elements seems to be determined many times over.

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

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#7. Dream-displacement and dream-condensation are the two foremen in charge of the dream-work, and we may put the shaping of our dreams down mainly to their activity.

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#8. The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, "as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid.

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#9. There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

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#10. If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which may also comprise other psychic structures.

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#11. The way in which these factors - displacement, condensation, and over-determination - interact in the process of dream-formation, and the question of which becomes dominant and which secondary, are things we shall set aside for later inquiries.

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#12. The first thing the investigator comes to understand in comparing the dream-content with the dream-thoughts is that work of condensation has been carried out here on a grand scale.

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#13. The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought

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#14. The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

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#15. Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

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#16. What means, then, is the dream-work able to use to indicate these relations, which are so difficult to represent, in the dream-thoughts? I shall attempt to list them one by one.

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#17. If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.

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#18. The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

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#19. By exposing the hidden dream-thoughts, we have confirmed in general that the dream does continue the motivation and interests of waking life, for dream-thoughts are engaged only with what seems to be important and of great interest to us.

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#20. So far we have mainly been concerned with probing after the hidden meaning of dreams, the route we should take to discover it, and the means the dream-work has employed to hide it.

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#21. The dream is not a somatic but a psychic phenomenon. You appreciate the significance

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#22. An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

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#23. 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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#24. If this is what happens, then a transference and displacement of the psychical intensity of the individual elements has taken place; as a consequence, the difference between the texts of the dream-content and the dream-thoughts makes its appearance.

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

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#26. Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

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#27. Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

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

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#29. This is why a new task faces us which did not exist before, the task of investigating the relationship of the manifest dream-content to the latent dream-thoughts, and of tracing the processes by which the latter turned into the former.

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#30. Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

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#31. Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life.

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#32. Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

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#33. The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

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#34. dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

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#35. Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it - all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.

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#36. I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

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