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Quotation from The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

“Father, don’t you see that I am burning”

Sigmund Freud (spoken by The dead child (in the father's dream))

The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII, trans. A. A. Brill (1913)

Portrait of Sigmund Freud

A father sleeping beside the room where his dead child lies dreams this reproach and wakes to find a candle has fallen on the body; Freud uses it to open his theory of the psychic apparatus.

Citation: "Father, don’t you see that I am burning" — Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII, trans. A. A. Brill (1913). (id the-interpretation-of-dreams-q10)

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

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