Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

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

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.