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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

— Sigmund Freud

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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)

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