The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.