Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.