All SIGMUND FREUD Quotes about “Dreams”

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”
“I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.”
“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”
“The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.”
“The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.”
“The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.”
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
“The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.”
“Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.”
“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”
“An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.”
“As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him to destruction.”
“All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.”
“dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.”
“Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.”
“Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.”
“The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.”

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