Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.” — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer… — Edmund Bergler Copy Share Image
“This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“Many people talk about messages everywhere, inside the organism a hormone is a message, a beam of light to obtain teleguidance to… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of… — Christopher Bollas Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“Why we ask questions: Questions are the basis of human freedom. Our mind, as a part of our self experience, is curious… — Christopher Bollas Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“ On Christmas. "Santa Claus represents God on assistance," said Clyde. "Santa Claus is a negative-idealed god, the pagan god of material… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
