What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Sigmund FreudCivilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
Sigmund FreudWe should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
Sigmund FreudObsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.
Sigmund Freud