The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves