A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. - Sigmund Freud

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Most of the 'pain' we experience is of a perceptual order, perception either of the urge of unsatisfied instincts or of something in the external world which may be painful in itself or may arouse painful anticipations in the psychic apparatus and is recognised by it as 'danger.