public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

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