When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.