I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.