A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.