All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

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

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

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.