Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

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

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

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

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.