“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots. … fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”… — Kantor Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where… — Adam Phillips 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
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My conversations with my wife tend to revolve around who's picking up the kids. Although for years I was aware of some… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer… — Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini Copy Share Image
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to… — Thomas Szasz 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
“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
“I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we… — Michael Ondaatje 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
“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed… — Ludwig Binswanger Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part… — Joseph Sandler Copy Share Image
I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day. — Art Malik Copy Share Image
What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -Sigmund… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which… — Henry Reed 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
“Freud wrote that missing someone who is loved and longed for is the key to an understanding of anxiety” — Ann Dally Copy Share Image
“Freud called it ‘transference’. This basically means that you hate in others what you hate about yourself.)” — James Dawson Copy Share Image
Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
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