4 Sigmund Freud Quotes on Unconscious

Sigmund Freud quotes on unconscious

10. The ego is not master in its own house.

11. The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

13. The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

60. Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.