Psychology Quotes

"The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface." "Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream." "The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought." "Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation." "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." "One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within." "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism." "A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist." "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy." "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." "Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." "There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." "Love is a serious mental disease."