"illusions commend themselves to us because they sace us the pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collid with a bit of reality which they are dashed to peices"
--Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian Physician
Founder of Psychoanalysis
2007-03-05 13:46:24 · 4 answers · asked by beautiful.disaster.xo 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Paraphrase: We like believing in good things, even if we know they are not true. But, sometimes, no matter how much we want to believe that something is true, we cannot, because the consequences of believing that would be disastrous.
Application to life: If someone says you are very pretty, you would like to believe it because it makes you feel good without hurting you. But if you jump off a cliff because someone says you're an angel, you will get hurt. So you won't do it (or you shouldn't, anyway).
2007-03-05 13:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
illusions = dreams, hopes
"accept without complaint" = no whining
"collide with reality..." = dreams get crushed
the personal relation to life, I'll let you do for yourself, I know you've had some hope that wasn't able to be realized.
2007-03-05 13:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Illusion: Life is a bowl of cherries; Reality, life can be full of pits.
2007-03-05 14:08:26 · answer #3 · answered by gon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
illusions allow us to continue on in life believing that there is more. they are like medicine. reality the disease.
2007-03-06 10:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋