How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Let us consider first the relation between father and son. The sanctity which we attribute to the rules laid down in the Decalogue has, I think, blunted our powers of perceiving the real facts. We seem scarcely to venture to observe that the majority of mankind disobey the Fifth Commandment. Alike in the lowest and in the highest strata of society filial piety is wont to give way to other interests. (5.5.33)
The Fifth Commandment that Freud mentions here is the injunction to "Honor thy father and thy mother." What does Freud mean when he says that the "majority of mankind" disobeys it?
Quote #8
It is true that I know of patients who have retained an architectural symbolism for the body and the genitals. […] For these patients pillars and columns represent the legs (as they do in the Song of Solomon), every gateway stands for one of the bodily orifices (a "hole"), every water-pipe is a reminder of the urinary apparatus, and so on. (6.5.11)
In this discussion of dream-symbolism, Freud throws in a reference to the Old Testament's Song of Solomon. In Freud's view, is religious symbolism the same as any other kind of symbolism, or does it have special significance?
Quote #9
Incidentally, the situation in the dream of my removing my children to safety from the City of Rome was distorted by being related back to an analogous event that occurred in my own childhood: I was envying some relatives who, many years earlier, had had an opportunity of removing their children to another country. (6.8.31)
Freud makes this remark in relation to one of his Dreams of Rome. The dream gave rise to associations with scriptural accounts of oppression and specifically to associations with Passover and the historical flight of the Hebrews from Egypt (6.8.28-31). As in many of his Dreams of Rome, this dream expresses unconscious concerns about the status of Jewish families in Christian Europe.