Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.