The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a harmless psychosis, a withdrawal from the world that is willed, temporary, and over at waking.

A Dream (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠come in a cunning pair: the first shows the person and only hints at the act, the second names the act with a stranger in the role.

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a compromise with a double function: it serves the wish to sleep by disposing of disturbances, and grants a repressed wish its hallucinated fulfilment.

The Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠better called an attempt at the fulfilment of a wish, since some, like the trauma's, fail.

The Superego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠modelled not on the parents but on their super-egos, and so carries tradition and its time-resisting values from generation to generation.

The Superego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the heir of the Oedipus complex, built from the identifications with the parents that replace the love one must give up.

The Superego (n.) inherits ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only the parents' severity, not their tenderness, and can be relentless even after the mildest upbringing.

The Superego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a garrison posted in a province inclined to rebellion, holding down the aggression it has taken over.

Religion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an attempt to master the world of the senses with the world of wishes we carry inside — and it cannot succeed, because the world is no nursery.

Religion (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠three things — explains the universe, consoles against the terrors of life, and lays down commandments — and owes most of its power to consolation, where science is no match for it.

Religion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠complete in all essentials and so cannot improve: if it was a mistake, it must remain one forever, while science is capable of undreamt-of improvement.

Religion (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be not a permanent acquisition of mankind but its counterpart to the neurosis each civilized child passes through on the way to maturity.

The Ego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the part of the id reshaped by the nearness of the outer world, a protective rind like the cortex around a speck of living matter.

The Ego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the great reservoir of libido, sending love out to objects and taking it back again.

The Ego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the sole seat of anxiety: it makes no sense to speak of an anxious id.

The Ego (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a subject that can make itself an object: it observes itself, criticizes itself, and splits to do so.

Psychoanalysis (n.) aims ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to strengthen the ego and widen it into the id: where id was, there ego shall be — a work of culture like draining the Zuider Zee.

Psychoanalysis (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be worn like reading glasses, put on for work and taken off for a walk: as a rule it possesses a doctor wholly or not at all.

Psychoanalysis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠worth attention less as a cure, being one among many, than for what it tells us about what concerns us most: our own nature.

The Id (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a chaos, a cauldron of seething excitations, with no organization and no collective will, only a striving to satisfy the instincts.

The Id (n.) knows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no good and evil, no morality — only instinctual charges seeking discharge.

The Id (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the impersonal "it" of the mind, alien to the ego, a name Freud took from Nietzsche's usage at Groddeck's suggestion.

Science (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠little confidence in itself if it thinks it cannot absorb whatever may turn out true in the claims of occultists.

Science (n.) works ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a sculptor at his clay model, tirelessly adding and taking away until the likeness satisfies — it does not stagger blindly from error to error.

Science (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠very young: Freud was already alive when Darwin published the Origin of Species, a blink beside the hundred thousand years of human evolution.

A Worldview (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an intellectual construction that solves every problem of existence from one overriding hypothesis, leaving no question unanswered — an ideal wish of human beings.

The Worldview (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mainly negative traits — submission to the truth, rejection of illusions — and those who want more consolation must look for it elsewhere.

The Worldview (n.) admits ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only one source of knowledge — the working-over of scrutinized observation — and none from revelation, intuition or divination.