Freud Quiz # 21
This is the first sentence of Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents:
(a) “It is impossible to escape the impression that people
commonly use false standards of measurement – that they seek power, success and
wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate
what is of true value in life.”
(b) “Two scenes from Shakespeare, one from a comedy and the
other from a tragedy, have lately given me occasion for setting and solving a
little problem.”
(c) “In my Traumdeutung
I made a statement concerning one of the findings of my analytic work which I
did not then understand.”
(d) “The word ‘No’ does not seem to exist for a dream.”
(e) “Anyone who has at any time had occasion to enquire from
the literature of aesthetics and psychology what light can be thrown on the
nature of jokes and on the position they
occupy will probably have to admit that jokes have not received nearly as much
philosophical consideration as they deserve in view of the part they play in
our mental life.”
Note: The opening lines of three other essays by Freud are also given here.
-- DL
