Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

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.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.