America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.