The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund FreudThe poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
Sigmund FreudThe transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.
Sigmund Freud