Unconscious Desires Quotes

People don’t know what they want until they see it.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

The ego is not master in its own house.

The public never knows what he wants, but he always wants what he knows.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Dreams aren't memories," he says.

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.