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

We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.