Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
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.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
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