The Interpretation of dreamsMacmillan, 1913 - 510 pages |
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absurd according allusion already analysis anxiety appear assertion awakening become belong censor child childhood cocaine condensation connection consciousness Count Thun course dream activity dream content dream formation dream interpretation dream material dream thoughts dream-work dreamer elements emotion example excitement experience explanation expression fact father feeling Forec foreconscious fulfilment genital Geseres girl hypnogogic hysterical idea impression indifferent infantile interpretation of dreams Irma's Irma's injection lady later manifest Maury means memory mental mind mother neurosis neurotic night object occurs origin Otto Otto Rank pain patient peculiar perception person phantasy present propyls psychic activity psychic apparatus psychic forces psychic process psychological recall recognised recollection reference relation representation represented scene Scherner seems sensation sensory sexual significance sleep somatic stimuli Strümpell suppressed symbolism symptoms theory thing tion train of thought trimethylamin uncon unconscious waking wish wish-fulfilment words Y-systems
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Page 299 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 150 - I was six years old and was given my first lessons by my mother, I was expected to believe that we were all made of earth and must therefore return to earth. This did not suit me and I expressed doubts of the doctrine.
Page 195 - But we, more fortunate than he, in so far as we have not become psychoneurotics, have since our childhood succeeded in withdrawing our sexual impulses from our mothers, and in forgetting our jealousy of our fathers.
Page 134 - There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. Ham. Why, right; you are in the right ; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and desire, shall point you; — For every man...
Page 214 - ... the dreamer, owing to a peculiar set of recollections, may create for himself the right to use anything whatever as a sexual symbol, though it is not ordinarily used in that way. Nor are the most frequently used sexual symbols unambiguous every time. After these limitations and reservations I may call attention to the following: .Emperor and Empress (King and Queen) in most cases really represent the parents of the dreamer; the dreamer himself or herself is the prince or princess. All elongated...
Page 72 - You critics, or whatever else you may call yourselves, are ashamed or frightened of the momentary and transient extravagances which are to be found in all truly creative minds and whose longer or shorter duration distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. You complain of your unfruitfulness because you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.
Page 351 - An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable to my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy have coincided in the same person; but not simultaneously, of course, nor in constant alternation, as was the case in my early childhood.
Page 72 - Critics, or whatever else you may call yourselves, you are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and transitory madness which is found in all creators, and whose longer or shorter duration distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints about barrenness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely" (Letter of December 1, 1788).
Page 213 - When one has become familiar with the abundant use of symbolism for the representation of sexual material in dreams, one naturally raises the question whether there are not many of these symbols which appear once and for all with a firmly established significance like the signs in stenography ; and one is tempted to compile a new dream-book according to the cipher method. In this connection it may be...
Page 452 - The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs.