Quotes About Psychology

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

The hypermnesia of dreams and their command of childhood material have become the two pillars on which our theory rests; our theory of dreams has ascribed to wishes deriving from childhood the part of indispensable moving-force in the formation of dreams.

No one who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

The dream has no way at all of expressing the alternative 'either … or'. It usually takes up the two options into one context as if they had equal rights.

at least one of the meanings of a symptom corresponds to the presentation of a sexual fantasy, while there is no such limit to the content of its other meanings.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

We are alone in confronting a different state of affairs; as we see it, there is a new kind of psychical material intervening between the content of the dream and the results of our reflections: the latent dream-content reached by our procedure, or the dream-thoughts. It is from this latent content, not the manifest, that we worked out the solution to the dream.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression

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.

The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.

I was convinced, I added, that she would be better at once if her father said that he was sacrificing Frau K. to her health. I hoped that he would not be persuaded to do so, because then she would have seen what a strong weapon she had in her hands, and would certainly not shrink from exploiting all the possibilities of illness on every future occasion. However, if her father did not give in to her, I felt sure that she would not abandon her invalid status so easily.

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

no one who still shares a delusion will ever recognize it as such.

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Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

All who seek to be nobler than their constitution permits succumb to neurosis; they would have been better in health if they had found it possible to be morally worse.

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.

The communists think they have found the way to redeem mankind from evil. Man is equivocally good and well disposed to his neighbour, but his nature has been corrupted by the institution of private property ... I can recognize the psychological presumption behind it as a baseless illusion. With the abolition of private property the human love of aggression is robbed of one of its tools, a strong one no doubt, but certainly not the strongest ... Aggression was not created by property.

the renunciation of aggression is inherent in its constitution.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.