Sigmund Freud Quotes

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.