“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

” –Freud

James J. Putnam, 1920

“Introduction” to Sigmund Freud’s Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

“One frequently hears the psychoanalytic method referred to as if it was customary for those
practicing it to exploit the sexual experiences of their patients and nothing more, and the
insistence on the details of the sexual life, presented in this
book, is likely to emphasize that notion. But the fact is, as
every thoughtful inquirer is aware, that the whole progress of
civilization, whether in the individual or the race, consists
largely in a "sublimation" of infantile instincts, and especially
certain portions of the sexual instinct, to other ends than those
which they seemed designed to serve. Art and poetry are fed
on this fuel and the evolution of character and mental force is
largely of the same origin. All the forms which this
sublimation, or the abortive attempts at sublimation, may take
in any given case, should come out in the course of a thorough
psychoanalysis. It is not the sexual life alone, but every
interest and every motive, that must be inquired into by the
physician who is seeking to obtain all the data about the
patient, necessary for his reeducation and his cure. But all the
thoughts and emotions and desires and motives which appear
in the man or woman of adult years were once crudely
represented in the obscure instincts of the infant, and among these instincts those which were
concerned directly or indirectly with the sexual emotions, in a wide sense, are certain to be found
in every case to have been the most important for the end-result.”

Bill, to Jake, Chapter 12 of The Sun Also Rises:

p. 120
“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get
precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink
yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all
your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You
hang around cafes.”
p. 121
"Listen. You're a hell of a good guy, and I'm fonder of you than
anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I
was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham
Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was
Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet. The Dred
Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League. Sex explains it
all. The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their
skin."