Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
a normal human being ... does not exist.
There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.
miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.