"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect..." — Sigmund Freud

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.