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

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.