Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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