royal road
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1. royal road - Noun
2. Royal road - Proper noun
Meaning
an auspicious way or means to achieve something
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the royal road to success
He believed that significant psychic events take place "below the surface" in the unconscious mind, For example, dreaming : Freud called dream symbols the "royal road to the unconscious" like hidden messages from the unconscious.
Proclus later retells a story that, when Ptolemy I asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, "Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry."
Freud called dreams the " royal road to the unconscious."