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

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.