The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

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

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.