You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Getting ready is that point in the day when the rivalry between the two needs is likely to peak, because we are… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.” — Sigmund Freud 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
“Before now, it has never occurred to me that someone might pray for me. An odd sensation all the odder because I… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
“Writing on this subject in 1904 Freud gave the reason for our unshakable conviction of freedom of choice. He remarked that it… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram,… — Dan Wilbur Copy Share Image
“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Even Freud was fooled by the hysterics of women’s responses and wrote them off as largely incapable, random and duplicitous to their… — Rollo Tomassi Copy Share Image
“Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I hate and have always hated the word therapist. I detest the idea that my work, if it is work at all,… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
