In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.