In Freud we trust...

“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you…

— Sigmund Freud

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

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“What troubled Jung most was Freud’s tendency to reduce any expression of spirituality—in a cultural or philosophical sense—to something smaller. Freud sniffed out sex…

— Gary Valentine Lachman

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

— Chaim Potok

My conversations with my wife tend to revolve around who's picking up the kids. Although for years I was aware of some sort of…

— David Morrissey

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my…

— Hugh Hefner

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones…

— Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after…

— Sigmund Freud

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

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

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To…

— Kamand Kojouri

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited…

— Ellen Willis

“Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part of the…

— Joseph Sandler