“Rogers believed that we have within ourselves enormous potential for self-understanding and for altering our self-concept and for our behaviour. He believed… — Jacqui Stedmon 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
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
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
“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
“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
“They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“scientific knowledge has taught [humans] much since the days of the Deluge, and it will increase their power still further. And, as… — Sigmund Freud 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
“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
“We need not deplore the renunciation of historical truth when we put forward rational grounds for the precepts of civilization. The truths… — Sigmund Freud 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
“People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just vanished. The rumors of what… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the… — Arnaud Desplechin 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
“But the resurrection without the crucifixion is empty optimism, an optimism that gives credence to Freud's notion that wishful thinking is the… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt 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
“...Freud's theory of self-determination...argues that human beings need three things in order to be content: They need to feel competent at what… — Billy Baker Copy Share Image
“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept… — Jon Stone Copy Share Image
