The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.