"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
~ Sigmund Freud ~












No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
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