Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)

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

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Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for 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 coincided in the same person.

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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

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

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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.

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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.

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