Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva Quotes

“Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".”
― Sigmund Freud, The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 9

“One of these rules is to the effect that a dream is invariably related to the events of the day before the dream. Our author seems to be wishing to show that he has followed this rule, for he attaches the dream immediately to Hanold’s ‘pedestrian researches’.”
― Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva

“It is hidden behind a play upon words, an ambiguity. “Somewhere in the sun Gradiva was sitting." We have quite correctly related this to the spot where he met her father, the zoologist. But could it not also mean in the "Sun"- that is, Gradiva is staying in the Albergo del Sole, the Sun Hotel?”
― Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva

“There is far less freedom and arbitrariness in mental life, however, than we are inclined to assume - there may even be none at all.”
― Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva

“Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.”
― Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva