Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.