Erich Fromm Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Communication, Missing

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

• A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Soul, Looks

• We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Judgment, Awake

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

• [Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Roots, Desire

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• We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.7, Open Road Media

• Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Communication, Important

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

• [Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Simple, Men

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• [Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Needs, Messages

• If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher. And it is really in knowing when one must prefer the one or the other approach, or a combination of the two, that remains one of the important elements of the art of dream interpretation.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Art, Two

• Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Plato, Sleep

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• In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Years, Different Faces

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• In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Noise, Judgment

• Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.170, Open Road Media

• For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Keys, Example

• According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Art, Form

• [Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Symbolism

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