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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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patients ego freedom to decide one way or another. – Sigmund Freud

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud

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