The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
The words for much that remains mute in me.
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.
Of course it would not occur to us to doubt the importance, experimentally demonstrated, of external sensory stimuli during sleep, but we have given this material the same place relative to the dream-wish as we have the remnants of thought left over from the work of the day. We do not need to dispute that the dream interprets the objective sensory stimulus as if it were an illusion; but where the authorities left the motive for this interpretation uncertain, we have put it in.
Every man is a poet at heart.
Human’s intrinsic nature manifest in it’s misunderstandings.
Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient’s conscious attitude to his illness... that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.
We are never so vulnerable as when we love.
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.
Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.
Various sources force us to assume that the so-called earliest childhood recollections are not true memory traces but later elaborations of the same, elaborations which might have been subjected to the influences of many later psychic forces. Thus, the “childhood reminiscences” of individuals altogether advance to the signification of “concealing memories,” and thereby form a noteworthy analogy to the childhood reminiscences as laid down in the legends and myths of nations.
How far back into childhood do our memories reach?
We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between civilization and sexuality from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals.
The first thing the investigator comes to understand in comparing the dream-content with the dream-thoughts is that work of condensation has been carried out here on a grand scale.
If we throw a crystal to the floor, it breaks; but not into hap-hazard pieces. It comes apart along its lines of cleavage into fragments whose boundaries, thought they were invisible, were predetermined by the crystal’s structure. Mental paitents are split and broken structures of this same kind... They have turned away from external reality, but for that very reason they know more about internal, physical reality...
Couldn’t I for once have you and the work at the same time?
Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !