No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

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