Famous Passages and Epigraph

From The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (trans. A. A. Brill)
Several phrases from the book became canonical in 20th-century thought.
Epigraph (title page)

Virgil's 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo' — 'If I cannot bend the higher powers, I will move the infernal regions.'

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Chapter VII, Section E
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Chapter VII, Section A, footnote

The 'navel of the dream' — the spot where it reaches down into the unknown and is unplumbable.

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