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

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

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

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.