I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was…

“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of unconscious thought.…

— Nigel Warburton

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of…

— Ken Dodd

“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant,…

— Jonathan Ned Katz

“...Freud's theory of self-determination...argues that human beings need three things in order to be content: They need to feel competent at what they do;…

— Billy Baker

“But as the 20th century dawned, Freudian psychology promoted the regressive notion that women suffer an intrinsic deficiency resulting in “penis envy.” Freud wrote…

— Joan Marler

“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”

— Natalie Angier

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

— Bill Condon

“I was the Sumerian god of fertility. You know what that means, don’t you? (Sin) You have a lot of penis envy over the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled…

— Bette Davis

“If one interprets 'penis envy' as other Freudian concepts have been reinterpreted, in the light of our new knowledge that what Freud believed to…

— Betty Friedan

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”

— G.K. Chesterton

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

— Eric Kandel