The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

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

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.