A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

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

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.