The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.

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

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.