I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.