A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair

That pathogenic process which is made evident to us through the resistance, we will name repression

Some violent antagonism must have been aroused to prevent the psychic process in question from reaching consciousness,

The symptom is the substitute for that which did not take place

the existence of a symptom presupposes that some psychic process was not carried to its normal conclusion, so that it could not become conscious

If something displeases him, he can defend himself against it very ingeniously and appear most critical. But if something strikes his fancy, then he may show himself easily convinced.

If one succeeds in helping him to overcome this new resistance, then he regains his insight and his understanding

Whenever we are on the point of bringing before his consciousness some piece of unconscious material which is especially painful to him, then he is critical in the extreme

the resistance is moreover constantly changing in intensity. It is always on the increase as we approach a new theme, is strongest at the height of its elaboration, and dies down again when this theme has been abandoned

That is why I can say that true psychoanalysis began when the help of hypnotism was renounced