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.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.