Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.