Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Human nature and behavior cause action, but through action an attempt is made to change attitude.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future? — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult… — Annie Rogers Copy Share Image
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Einstein never asked Freud to meet or treat his son, nor did he seem impressed by the idea of psychoanalysis. “It may… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. Contudo, tenho declarado claramente… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“We have already seen that when positive authority suggests a change in behavior, the recipient will accept it provided he is capable… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.” — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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