Quotes About Mind

The ego is not master in its own house.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet. Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.

Sigmund Freud

there is no such thing as an unconscious no.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

Dreaming, in short, is one of the devices we employ to circumvent repression, one of the main methods of what may be called indirect representation in the mind.

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

The substitute gratifications, such as art offers, are illusions in contrast to reality, but none the less satisfying to the mind on that account, thanks to the place which phantasy has reserved for herself in mental life.

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

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

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

Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

The waking life never repeats itself with its trials and joys, its pleasures and pains, but, on the contrary, the dream aims to relieve us of these. Even when our whole mind is filled with one subject, when profound sorrow has torn our hearts or when a task has claimed the whole power of our mentality, the dream either gives us something entirely strange, or it takes for its combinations only a few elements from reality, or it only enters into the strain of our mood and symbolises reality.

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

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

The fact is that a survival of all the early stages alongside the final form is only possible in the mind, and that it is impossible for us to represent a phenomenon of this kind in visual terms.

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