A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.