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Quotation from The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

“I think that after all I must be overlooking some organic affection”

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 physician's fear of having mistaken an organic illness for a hysterical one, a real anxiety in Freud's practice.

Citation: "I think that after all I must be overlooking some organic affection" — Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter II, the dream of Irma's injection, trans. A. A. Brill (1913). (id the-interpretation-of-dreams-q2)

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

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