No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
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.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
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.
Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
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.
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".
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.
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
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.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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.
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 was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
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