Ne înşelăm dacă credem că inconştientul este ceva inofensiv … Desigur, el nu este primejdios în orice condiţii; dar de îndată ce apare o nevroză, acesta e un semn că în inconştient există o acumulare...

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing them to conform to arbitrary definitions of ‘normality’. This charge is in fact...

I felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.