My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“En ting er fagkyndig analyse, en annen ting kvaksalveranalyse og onaniterapi.” — Harald Schjelderup Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked.” Julian pulled himself closer and rested his head in the crook of Paul’s… — Micah Nemerever Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The repeated attempts that have been made to improve humanity - in particular to make it more peacable - have failed, because… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Leon was less withdrawn, more friendly, and he was, much of the time, in contact with reality. He was, in other words,… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience” — Christopher Marshall Copy Share Image
“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
