Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

Now it is nothing but torture.