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Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners QUOTES

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners QUOTES

1 " Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

2 " We are what we are because we have been what we have been. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

3 " dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes. Nor will it seem a matter of chance that in the course of interpretation one always happens upon subjects of which one does not like to speak or think. The disagreeable sensation which such dreams arouse is simply identical with the antipathy which endeavors—usually with success—to restrain us from the treatment or discussion of such subjects, and which must be overcome by all of us, if, in spite of its unpleasantness, we find it necessary to take the matter in hand. But this disagreeable sensation, which occurs also in dreams, does not preclude the existence of a wish; every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

4 " Freud said to Putnam: "We are what we are because we have been what we have been. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

5 " Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet. Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

6 " The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

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

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

8 " The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley of dream contents, examples of which I need scarcely adduce. Their strangeness quite disappears when we resolve not to place them on a level with the objects of perception as known to us when awake, but to remember that they represent the art of dream condensation by an exclusion of unnecessary detail. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

9 " 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. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

10 " 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. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

11 " the dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

12 " dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

13 " contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all. According to them dreams are provoked and initiated exclusively by stimuli proceeding from the senses or the body, which either reach the sleeper from without or are accidental disturbances of his internal organs. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

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

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

15 " The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

16 " The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, which then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to "originate" for consciousness. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

17 " The desires which are realized in dreams are left over from the day or, as a rule, the day previous, and the feeling has become intently emphasized and fixed during the day thoughts. Accidental and indifferent matters, or what must appear so to the child, find no acceptance in the contents of the dream. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

18 " They dream that they are already up, that they are washing, or already in school, at the office, etc., where they ought to be at a given time. The night before an intended journey one not infrequently dreams that one has already arrived at the destination; before going to a play or to a party the dream not infrequently anticipates, in impatience, as it were, the expected pleasure. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

19 " The dream does never trouble itself about things which are not deserving of our concern during the day, and trivialities which do not trouble us during the day have no power to pursue us whilst asleep. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

20 " Analysis discovers that, in many other dreams in whose manifest content nothing erotic can be found, the work of interpretation shows them up as, in reality, realization of sexual desires; whilst, on the other hand, that much of the thought-making when awake, the thoughts saved us as surplus from the day only, reaches presentation in dreams with the help of repressed erotic desires. "

― Sigmund Freud , Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners