Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.