Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease. — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work:… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if… — William Faulkner 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
“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
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests.… — Anonymous 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
Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings… — Sandra Scarr 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
“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
“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
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman 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
“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
“major threat to the psychoanalyst’s creativity in working with his patient is the patient’s relentless, aggressive attack on the analyst’s work with… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It is recognised now that Freud never gave proper attention, even in man, to growth of the ego or self: 'the impulse… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a… — Eva Ibbotson 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
“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“As Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says,… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
“Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“One modern conceit is that the inner man is more important than the outer man. The second conceit is that somehow, thanks… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
