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Sigmund Freud Quotes

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.""If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.""Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.""Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet.""The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought.""The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.""Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.""Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes.""Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires.""We are what we are because we have been what we have been.""The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.""Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.""The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.""The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling.""The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.""The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.""There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle.""Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.""The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it.""At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away."
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