Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

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

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.