Civilized society is perpetually threatened with disintegration. The interest of work in common would not hold it together.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or the other.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Aggressiveness was not created by property.
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
A group is subject to the truly magical power of words; they can evoke the most formidable tempests in the group mind, and are also capable of stilling them.
