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

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.