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

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.