If we are to take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything dies for internal reasons – becomes inorganic once again – then we shall be c… - Sigmund Freud

Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.