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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.
The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.
Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!
[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.
To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.
The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.