The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be… — Rennie Airth Copy Share Image
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of remaining… — Ramana Pemmaraju Copy Share Image
Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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