Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly...[Du sollst nicht widerwillig gebaeren]
--Eighth commandment, Diary 1904
Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.
-- Diary 1904
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
-- Diary 1904
Art is life's dream interpretation...[Kunst ist Lebenstraumdeutung]
-- Diary Dec 1904
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
--Ferenczi and Rank, The Development of Psychoanalysis, 1924
The richer--that is, the more varied and complete--the individual's emotional life, the less is he driven to projection, and the more will he incline to identification. His outlet and satisfaction comes in identifying himself with the emotions of the other. On the other hand, the narrower and more restricted the individual's emotional life, the more intense will be his fewer emotions, the less will he be inclined to, and capable of, identification--the lack of which he has to compensate for by projection. Projection thus proves to be a compensatory mechanism that adjusts for an inner lack. Identification, on the other hand, is an expression of abundance, of the desire for union, for alliance, for sharing.
--"Love, Guilt and the Denial of Feelings," 1927, American Lectures, 160 --(You may Purchase this Book)
I analyzed first according to Freud's technique, and then gradually developed a shorter one, a technique that is getting shorter and shorter, so that I am almost afraid that soon I won't have to see the patient at all.
--Answer to question, Yale University, 1929
The chimpanzees with whom I spent two hours are simply lovely. They are making a thorough study of the psychologists around them and know already how to please them in their experiments. They don't know anything about time but are experts in regard to space because they spit right in the middle of your face from any distance. That's their way of lecturing.
--At Yale Primate Lab, 28 Feb 1929, letter to Jessie Taft
This very essence of a man, his soul, which the artist puts into his work and which is represented by it, is found again in the work by the enjoyer, just as the believer finds his soul in religion or in God, with whom he feels himself to be one. It is on this identity of the spiritual, which underlies the concept of collective religion, and not on a psychological identification with the artist, that the pleasurable effect of the work of art ultimately depends, and the effect is, in this sense, one of deliverance....But both [artist and enjoyer], in the simultaneous dissolution of their individuality in a greater whole, enjoy, as a high pleasure, the personal enrichment of that individuality through this feeling of oneness. They have yielded up their mortal ego for a moment, fearlessly and even joyfully, to receive it back in the next, the richer for this universal feeling.
--Art and Artist, 1932, p. 109-110.
Psychoanalysis arrived to save the human soul in a materialistic era sick with self-consciousness and threatened by loss of belief in immortality and in its public expression, religion. Its greatness resides in having done this in the mind-set of our era, not simply symbolizing the soul exoterically or concretizing it socially as in the past, but attempting to demonstrate it scientifically. But realistic psychology is the death knell of the soul, whose source, nature, and value lie precisely in the abstract, the unfathomable, and the esoteric.
--Psychology and the Soul (1930/1998) p. 23.