Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
~ Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
