It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Christmas is the alcoholidays

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.