The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it r… - Sigmund Freud

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.