The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

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

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

History is just new people making old mistakes.