Quotes About Psychology

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.

Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.

The words for much that remains mute in me

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

religion succeeds in saving many people from individual neuroses. But little more.

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.

Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

What one forgets once he will often forget again.

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

The superego is, however, not simply a residue of the earliest object-choices of the id; it also represents an energetic reaction-formation against those choices.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

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.

Alg? , Ben için, O'da güdülerin oynad??? role kar??l?k gelir. Tutkular? içinde bar?nd?ran O'nun tersine, Ben ak?l ve saÄŸduyu olarak adland?rd?klar?m?z? temsil eder. Tüm bunlar herkesçe bilinen popüler farklarla örtüÅŸür, ama yaln?zca ortalama ya da ideal durumda doÄŸru olarak kabul edilmelidir." sayfa 49

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

Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.

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.

This reliance on puns gives Freud an interpretative freedom which might often be considered licence.

most people report dreaming principally in visual images. Freud, however, assumes that dreams start from a dream-thought that is best expressed in words and translate it into a picture-language which is intellectually inferior because it cannot convey logical connections; the analyst restores to the dream its verbal character.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

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.

As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.