20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

11. "Dreams Are The Royal Road To The Unconscious" - Sigmund Freud

The so-called "father of psychoanalysis" wrote many groundbreaking books, including The Interpretations of Dreams in 1909, but none of them contain this phrase.

Although this is effectively what Freud meant, the phrase was actually derived from summaries of his theories.

Freudian slip and all that...

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