The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical…

“The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events…

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a thing of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

“The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of power, basking…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject and despise…

— Mela Hartwig

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the…

— Francis Levy

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of…

— Herbert Marcuse

“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing…

— Ludwig Binswanger

“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts…

— Erich Fromm

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that…

— Stanislaw Lem

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years…

— Paul Goodman