Psychoanalysis Quotes

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream." "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." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. " "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." "The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness." "The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses." "The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to the unconscious."