Quotes
List here any quote, from Sigmund Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words
..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ...
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea that follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link. The intellect cannot judge all these ideas unless it can retain them until it has considered them in connection with these other ideas. In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell,and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. (Friedrich Schiller)
ReplyDelete... one grows fat on food eaten at other people's tables.
ReplyDeleteThe range of wit is unlimited.
ReplyDeleteThe dream is the guardian of sleep, not its disturber.
ReplyDeleteThe subject to which the fact of being right or wrong is related in the dream is not far removed from that which is really of interest to the dream-thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThat person in the dream who is subject to an emotion which I am aware of while asleep is the one that conceals my ego.
ReplyDeleteWhen a poem is to be written in rhymed couplets, the second rhyming line is bound by two conditions: it must express the meaning allotted to it, and its expression must permit of a rhyme with the first line. The best poems are, of course, those in which one does not detect the effort to find a rhyme, and in which both thoughts have as a matter of course, by natural induction, selected the verbal expression which, with a little subsequent adjustment, will permit of the rhyme.
ReplyDelete"What are five years?" Ask the dream thoughts. " That is no time at all to me, that isn't worth consideration. I have time enough ahead of me, and just as what you wouldn't believe came true at last, so I shall accomplish this also."
ReplyDeleteThus, a dream frequently has the profoundest meaning in the places where it seems most absurd. In all ages those who have had something to say and have been unable to say it without danger to themselves have gladly donned the cap and bells. He for whom the forbidden saying was intended was more likely to tolerate it if he was able to laugh at it, and to flatter himself with the comment that what he disliked was obviously absurd.
ReplyDeleteTake a desert and put it through a sieve; the lions will be left behind.
ReplyDelete... censorship bids me suppress my affects, and if I am a master of the art of dissimulation I can hypocritically display the opposite affect - smiling where I should like to be angry, and pretending affection where I should like to destroy.
ReplyDeleteOnce you have opened the doors more people enter than it was your original intention to admit.
ReplyDelete... is not the procreation of children for all men the only way of access to immortality?
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