“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it. — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen." Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt 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
“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies is exemplified by the work of Carl… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation… — Peter Cole Copy Share Image
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no… — Wilfred Bion 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
“Do you actually hear confessions in your church, Father, actual spoken confessions? For that matter, does any priest anymore, at least as… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
“Jung had had enough, and in his reply he made clear his disgust with Freud’s infuriating practice of treating criticism of his… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone’s love.” — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
