“The study of the development of the libido from its earliest beginnings has done more for the elucidation of the psychoneuroses than any other line of psycho-analytic investigation.”— Karl Abraham
“The anal character is distinguished by a special combination of three qualities: orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy.”— Karl Abraham
“The patient repeats in his relation to the physician the whole of his past history.”— Karl Abraham
“We are justified in concluding that the constitutional factor in the formation of character is the strength of the pre-genital instincts.”— Karl Abraham
“The content of the chosen fairy tale has nothing to do with the patient's real life, but a great deal to do with his inner problems, which are here symbolically expressed.”— Bruno Bettelheim
“A part of the libido which has been ‘disappointed’ retreats to a more primitive stage of development.”— Karl Abraham
“Psycho-analysis has taught us that the sublimest and the most obscene things have a common root.”— Karl Abraham
“The analysis of young children has taught me that the Oedipus complex begins at a much earlier age than we have been accustomed to suppose.”— Melanie Klein
“Freud's work is not a prescription for women's lives but a description of their condition.”— Juliet Mitchell