Sigmund Freud Quotes

“Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:love

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

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:knowledge mind dreams

“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, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:fear dream

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:reality consciousness

“Psychoanalysis is justly suspicious. One of its rules reads: Whatever disturbs the continuation of the work is a resistance.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:work

“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:virtue dreams

“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:madness dreams

“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:experience

“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...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:thought

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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