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

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

If you can't do it, give up!

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.