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Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Dora : An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
Group Psychology And The Analysis Of The Ego (1921)
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
Letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality (1935)
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
The Ego and the Id (1923)
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
"I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
Totem and Taboo : Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (1913)
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girls clitoris.
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Personality (1998)
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology Touchstone (1963)