Quote by Sigmund Freud
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the su

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. – Sigmund Freud

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