The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

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

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Now it is nothing but torture.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.