The Interpretation of Dreams Repression Quotes

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Quote #10

If we restrict ourselves to the minimum of new knowledge which has been established with certainty, we can still say this of dreams: they have proved that what is suppressed continues to exist in normal people as well as abnormal, and remains capable of psychical functioning. (7.6.41)

Throughout The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud stresses that the psychical processes he describes don't just occur in the minds of neurotics and "hysterics"—they apply to everyone. Freud's theories asked respectable ladies and gentlemen to radically re-conceptualize their own relationships to sexuality, society, and their deepest selves.