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.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.