No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.