We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Sigmund FreudYou wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Sigmund FreudI have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
Sigmund FreudThe true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
Sigmund Freud