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Quotation from The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

“I say to her: “If you still have pains, it is really only your own fault”

Sigmund Freud (spoken by Freud (in the dream))

The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter II, the dream of Irma's injection, trans. A. A. Brill (1913)

Portrait of Sigmund Freud

The dreamer reproaches his patient for not accepting his 'solution', the first sign of the dream's wish to shift blame.

Citation: "I say to her: “If you still have pains, it is really only your own fault" — Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter II, the dream of Irma's injection, trans. A. A. Brill (1913). (id the-interpretation-of-dreams-q1)

Portrait: Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt (cropped), Max Halberstadt, Public domain.

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