Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.