How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
My Uncle Josef represented my two colleagues who had not been appointed to professorships—the one as a simpleton and the other as a criminal. I now saw too why they were represented in this light. If the appointment of my friends R. and N. had been postponed for "denominational" reasons, my own appointment was also open to doubt; if, however, I could attribute the rejection of my two friends to other reasons, which did not apply to me, my hopes would remain untouched. (4.1.16)
Although Freud's conscious thoughts about his nomination for a professorship took account of the anti-Semitism in turn-of-the-century Vienna, his Dream of Uncle Josef let him indulge in a different view of the situation. In the dream, Freud could cast off his concerns about the effect that anti-Semitism would have on his career in the form of telling himself that his friends had been passed over for very different reasons.
Quote #5
What I have in mind is a series of dreams which are based upon a longing to visit Rome. For a long time to come, no doubt, I shall have to continue to satisfy that longing in my dreams: for at the season of year when it is possible for me to travel, residence in Rome must be avoided for reasons of health. (5.3.9)
In Sigmund Freud's Dreams, Alexander Grinstein looks closely at Freud's numerous Dreams of Rome and argues that Freud's longing to visit the city was mixed up with many conflicting emotions about Judaism, Christianity, and the political and religious climates of turn-of-the-century Europe (source).
Quote #6
"When I was a young man," he said, "I went for a walk one Saturday in the streets of your birthplace; I was well dressed, and had a new fur cap on my head. A Christian came up to me and with a single blow knocked off my cap into the mud and shouted: 'Jew! get off the pavement!'" "And what did you do?" I asked. "I went into the roadway and picked up my cap," was his quiet reply. This struck me as unheroic conduct on the part of the big, strong man who was holding the little boy by the hand. (5.3.12)
This scene is one of Freud's most striking childhood memories. As he tells us, he "may have been ten or twelve years old" when his father told him this story (5.3.12). Although Jakob Freud seemed to be telling the story so that his young son could see "how much better things were now than they had been in his days," young Sigmund later finds himself comparing his father unfavorably to more "heroic" Jewish men (5.3.12-13).