Quotes About Imagination

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is—art.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

The dream shows how recollections of one's everyday life can be worked into a structure where one person can be substituted for another, where unacknowledged feelings like envy and guilt can find expression, where ideas can be linked by verbal similarities, and where the laws of logic can be suspended.

A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields (Memory).

Every man is a poet at heart.

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

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

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.

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

Children have no fear of their dolls coming to life, they may even desire it.

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.

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.

The uneducated relatives of our patients—persons who are impressed only by the visible and tangible, preferably by such procedure as one sees in the moving picture theatres—never miss an opportunity of voicing their scepticism as to how one can do anything for the malady through mere talk. Such thinking, of course, is as shortsighted as it is inconsistent. For these are the very persons who know with such certainty that the patients merely imagine their symptoms. Words

It is plainly the case that children repeat everything in their play that has made a powerful impression on them, and that in so doing they abreact the intensity of the ecperience and make themselves so to speak master of the situation.

It is the relation of similarity, congruence, or convergence, the just like, which dreams have the most various means of expressing better than anything else.

É seguro supor, portanto, que o que foi sonhado no sonho é uma representação da realidase, a verdadeira lembrança, ao passo que a continuação do sonho, pelo contrário, meramente representa o que aquele que sonha deseja. Incluir algo num sonho dentro de um sonho equivale assim a desejar que a coisa descrita como um sonho jamais tivesse acontecido.

Vocês críticos, ou outra denominação que dêe a vocês mesmos, ficam envergonhados ou assustados com as extravagâncias momentâneas e passageiras que se encontram em todas as mentes verdadeiramente criativas e cuja duração, maior ou menor, distingue o artista que pensa do sonhador. Vocês se queixam de sua improdutividade porque rejeitam muito cedo e discriminam com demasiada severidade.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

The great Leonardo remained like a child for the whole of his life…Even as an adult he continued to play, and this is why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

We dream of what we have seen, said, desired, or done.

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.

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.