This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

There are no mistakes.