Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.