Edward Beecher

“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”
― Freud Sigmund