Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.