- Cameron: According to Freud, and I'm paraphrasing, 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. Like, an eighth grade boy punching a girl.
- House: I treat you like garbage ... so I must really like you? Given your Freudian theory, what does it mean if I start being nice to you?
- Cameron: That you're getting in touch with your feelings.
- House: Hmm. So there's absolutely nothing I can do to make you think that I don't like you?
- Cameron: Sorry, no.
- House: You live under the delusion that you can fix everything that isn't perfect. ... You don't love; you need. ... What I am is what you need. I'm damaged.
