Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.