It Is Not So Much That Man

When A Man Is Freed Of Religion, He Has A Better Chance To Live A Normal And Wholesome Life.

Conscience Is The Internal Perception Of The Rejection Of A Particular Wish Operating Within Us.

None Believes In His Own Death. In The Unconscious Everyone Is Convinced Of His Own Immortality.

Towards The Outside, At Any Rate, The Ego Seems To Maintain Clear And Sharp Lines Of Demarcation. There Is Only One State -- Admittedly An Unusual State, But Not One That Can Be Stigmatized As Pathological -- In Which It Does Not Do This. At The Height Of Being In Love The Boundary Between Ego And Object Threatens To Melt Away. Against All The Evidence Of His Senses, A Man Who Is In Love Declares That "i" And "you" Are One, And Is Prepared To Behave As If It Were A Fact.

The Poets And Philosophers Before Me Discovered The Unconscious; What I Discovered Was The Scientific Method By Which The Unconscious Can Be Studied.