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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
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The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.