“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick.” — Leah Raeder 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
“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“Thus I must contradict you when you go on to argue that men are completely unable to do without the consolation of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christians are welcome to believe it and others… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s… — Adolf Grünbaum Copy Share Image
“But as the 20th century dawned, Freudian psychology promoted the regressive notion that women suffer an intrinsic deficiency resulting in “penis envy.”… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I would return to my world, to my own city and my work. I would go back to being a doctor, an… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
“This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
