How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
In the course of his reprimand, my father let fall the words: "The boy will come to nothing." This must have been a frightful blow to my ambition, for references to this scene are still constantly recurring in my dreams and are always linked with an enumeration of my achievements and successes, as though I wanted to say: "You see, I have come to something." (5.3.45)
In his Dream of Count Thun, Freud's dreaming mind not only says, "See, I have become something," but it also debases Freud's father in order to make Freud look good by comparison. By representing Freud's father as a blind old man who depends on his son's assistance, the dream helps Freud to get revenge for the earlier blow to his ambition.
Quote #5
The first reader and critic of this book—and his successors are likely to follow his example—protested that "the dreamer seems to be too ingenious and amusing." This is quite true so long as it refers only to the dreamer; it would only be an objection if it were to be extended to the dream-interpreter. In waking reality I have little claim to be regarded as a wit. If my dreams seem amusing, it is not on my account, but on account of the peculiar psychological conditions under which dreams are constructed […]. (6.2.51)
Freud's desire was to be taken seriously as an innovator of psychological treatment—and for The Interpretation of Dreams to be recognized as an important work of scientific literature. By kind of pretending to be humble here—that is, by insisting that the "wit" of his dreams doesn't come from his interpretations, but from the dreams themselves—Freud is insisting on the credibility and value of his methods.
Quote #6
He began to flatter me: telling me how much he had learnt from me, how he looked at everything now with fresh eyes, how I had cleansed the Augean stables of errors and prejudices in my theory of the neuroses. He told me, in short, that I was a very great man. (6.9.23)
As Freud interprets a dream in which he washes away many "small heaps of faeces" with a powerful stream of urine, he recalls this conversation. In it, an audience member praised him after hearing him give a lecture. Freud's deep pleasure at being hailed as "a very great man" is represented in the dream through an association between himself and the legendary hero Hercules, who cleaned the Augean stables by rerouting a river through them.