"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
"The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality."
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Source: Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”
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