Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!