"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil..." — 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 psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.