Quotes About Subconscious

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.

In inconstient, nimic nu ia sfarsit, nu trece, nu se uita

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

Ä°fade edilmemiÅŸ duygular asla ölmez, sadece diri diri gömülür ve sonradan daha korkunç ÅŸekillerde tezahür ederler.

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

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.

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.

But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.

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.

As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.

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

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

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one.

El sueño posee una maravillosa poesía, una exacta facultad alegórica, un humorismo incomparable y una deliciosa ironía.

The words for much that remains mute in me

Visul este realizarea mascata a unei dorinte refulate. Este construit ca un simptom nevrotic, este o formatie de compromis intre necesitatea unei aspiratii instinctive refulate si rezistenta unei puteri cenzurate in eu. In virtutea unei origini asemanatoare el este la fel de incomprehensibil ca si simptomul si necesita, ca si acesta, o interpretare.

Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal.

A normal dream stands, as it were, on two feet, one of which derives from the actual nature of the occasion for it, the other on a childhood event with serious consequences.

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

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

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.

Freud revelled in linguistic play, but, despite his appreciation of painting and especially sculpture, he did not know what to make of visual imagery in dreams.

Sigmund Freud

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.