In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious