It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor… - Sigmund Freud

Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet. Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.

For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is — art.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.