How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
If a woman dreams of falling, it almost invariably has a sexual sense: she is imagining herself as a "fallen woman." (5.3.26)
Interpretations like this one reveal how deeply Freud's theories were shaped by the cultural norms of his time. Both the phrase "fallen woman" and the notion of a sexual "fall" come from Judeo-Christian concepts of sexual sin. It's not necessarily true that Freud himself thinks this way; the point is more that these cultural norms tended to be formative for most people within Freud's society, including women, so it's no surprise that they play out in people's unconscious minds.
Quote #8
If, then, a child's death-wishes against his brothers and sisters are explained by the childish egoism which makes him regard them as his rivals, how are we to explain his death-wishes against his parents, who surround him with love and fulfil his needs and whose preservation that same egoism should lead him to desire? (5.5.30)
This crucial question may not seem to have anything to do with sexuality or sexual identity, but it totally underlies Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex. What Freud wants to know is this: why is it that young children seem capable of such extreme hostility toward their parents?
Quote #9
A solution of this difficulty is afforded by the observation that dreams of the death of parents apply with preponderant frequency to the parent who is of the same sex as the dreamer: that men, that is, dream mostly of their fathers death and women of their mothers. […] It is as though—to put it bluntly—a sexual preference were making itself felt at an early age: as though boys regarded their fathers and girls their mothers as their rivals in love, whose elimination could not fail to be to their advantage. (5.5.31)
In response to his earlier question about young children's death-wishes toward their parents, Freud now offers a startling theory: children think of their parents as sexual rivals. Freud anticipated that many of his readers might find this idea "monstrous" (5.5.32), but in his view, it not only helped to explain the nature of dreaming, but it also helped explain the neurotic conditions that he treated in his patients every day.