Dream Psychology - The Original Classic Edition. Freud (Hg.) Sigmund

other than egoistic emotions. The ego in the dream does not, indeed, represent only my friend, but stands for myself also. I identify myself with him because the fate of his discovery appears to me typical of the acceptance of my own. If I were to publish my own theory, which gives sexuality predominance in the aetiology of psychoneurotic disorders (see the allusion to the eighteen-year-old patient--"Nature, Nature!"), the same criticism would be leveled at me, and it would even now meet with the same contempt.