In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

To be is to be vulnerable.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.