In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
Sigmund FreudThinking 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.
Sigmund FreudThe voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud