Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

A strong egoism is a protection.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.