Sigmund Freud Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Dream, Morning

• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Waking, Technique

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

• I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "Therapy and technique".

• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Summarizing, Royal

• The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Race, Use

• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Imagination

• The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Soul, Matter

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “On Dreams”, p.2, Courier Corporation

• The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Safety, Brain

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities”, p.69, e-artnow

• Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Sleep, Guardian

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.253, Basic Books

• I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Kind, Cocaine

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.194, Basic Books

• The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Men, Honor

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)”, p.17, Sigmund Freud

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Evil, Understanding

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected papers”

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Influence, Contradiction

• Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

  Sigmund Freud

  Summer, Dream, House

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Wish, Realization

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “Dream Psychology. Psychoanalysis for Beginners”, p.19, Lulu.com

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Inspiration, Two

• To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Taken, Past

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities”, p.439, e-artnow

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

• dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Dreamer

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Dream Psychology: Top of Sigmund Freud”, 谷月社

• Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Yesterday

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Wake Up, May

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

• An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Majority, Overwhelming

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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