The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves