Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

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

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

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

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.