<p><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/e-zine-issue-3-fall-2012/hijacked-by-a-dream-by-paco-mitchell/#_edn6" rel="nofollow">Paco Mitchell at Depth Insights</a> lists the following reference for “the unconscious can only wish”:</p>

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  <p>For an informed critique of Freud’s comment and of psychoanalytic theory in general, see C. G. Jung, <em>The Theory of Psychoanalysis</em> (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1915).</p>
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<p><a href="http://archive.org/stream/theoryofpsychoan00jungiala/theoryofpsychoan00jungiala_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">Full text is available at Archive.org</a>.
You may also want to search for "can only wish" on <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/26077433/Freud-and-Psychoanalysis-C-G-Jung" rel="nofollow">Scribd's copy of Jung's <em>Freud and Psychoanalysis</em></a>, and <a href="http://archive.org/stream/mechanismsofchar00whituoft/mechanismsofchar00whituoft_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">Archive.org's full text of William White's <em>Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis</em></a>. These provide plenty more context, though I'm not seeing a direct reference to the original source of the quote...</p>

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Nick Stauner
<p>Where does Freud say, "The unconscious mind can only wish?" I've been tasked with either agreeing or disagreeing with this statement, but I cannot find exactly where Freud is said to have made this statement, thus no context. </p>

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Where does Freud say, "The unconscious mind can only wish?"
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# Where does Freud say, "The unconscious mind can only wish?"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-25)

Where does Freud say, "The unconscious mind can only wish?" I've been tasked with either agreeing or disagreeing with this statement, but I cannot find exactly where Freud is said to have made this statement, thus no context.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-03-25. Score: 4

[Paco Mitchell at Depth Insights](http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/e-zine-issue-3-fall-2012/hijacked-by-a-dream-by-paco-mitchell/#_edn6) lists the following reference for “the unconscious can only wish”:

> For an informed critique of Freud’s comment and of psychoanalytic theory in general, see C. G. Jung, *The Theory of Psychoanalysis* (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1915).

[Full text is available at Archive.org](http://archive.org/stream/theoryofpsychoan00jungiala/theoryofpsychoan00jungiala_djvu.txt).
You may also want to search for "can only wish" on [Scribd's copy of Jung's *Freud and Psychoanalysis*](http://www.scribd.com/doc/26077433/Freud-and-Psychoanalysis-C-G-Jung), and [Archive.org's full text of William White's *Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis*](http://archive.org/stream/mechanismsofchar00whituoft/mechanismsofchar00whituoft_djvu.txt). These provide plenty more context, though I'm not seeing a direct reference to the original source of the quote...


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