Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams

His attitude is one assumed by many people, laymen and scientists, some of them concealing it under a general scepticism as to dream interpreta tion.

Few people are willing to concede as Nietszche did, that nothing is more genuinely ourselves than our dreams.

This is why the psychoanalytic pronouncement that dreams are the fulfilment of wishes meets with so much hostility.

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Excerpt from Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams

St. Augustine was glad that God did not hold him responsible for his dreams. From which we may infer that his dreams must have been "human, all too human" and that he experienced a certain feeling of guilt on account of their nature.

His attitude is one assumed by many people, laymen and scientists, some of them concealing it under a general scepticism as to dream interpretation.

Few people are willing to concede as Nietszche did, that "nothing is more genuinely ourselves than our dreams."

This is why the psychoanalytic pronouncement that dreams are the fulfilment of wishes meets with so much hostility.

The man who has a dream of gross sex or ego gratification dislikes to have others think that the desire for such gross pleasure is a part of his personality.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.