"The neurotic is a person who has not been able to overcome his childhood conflicts."

"The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."

"The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, which he invests with large amounts of affect—while separating it sharply f…"

"A man who has been the undisputed favorite of his mother retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it."

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man."