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the content of the dream is thus the fulfilment of a wish; its motive is a wish.
Every dream has at least one point at which it is unfathomable; a central point, as it were, connecting it with the unknown.
we take pains to dream only in connection with such matters as have given us food for thought during the day.
(the uncleanliness of childhood is often replaced in dreams by greed for money;
All dreams are absolutely egoistical; in every dream the beloved ego appears, even though in a disguised form.
the dream cannot reproduce the scene itself
The dream is fundamentally nothing more than a special form of our thinking, which is made possible by the conditions of the sleeping state.
from the moment when we seek to penetrate more deeply into the psychic processes in dreaming, all paths lead into darkness.
the dream is a continuation of thinking in sleep.
Nothing can be brought to an end in the unconscious; nothing is past or forgotten.
It is not the dream that creates the phantasy, but the activity of unconscious phantasy that plays the leading part in the formation of the dream-thoughts.
Contradictory thoughts do not try to eliminate one another, but continue side by side, and often combine to form condensation-products,
