At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

A strong egoism is a protection.

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.