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

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

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