“Freud says that imagination is driven by primal and potentially savage desires.” — Peter Gilboy 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
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd 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
“The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised” — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before… — Shirl Solomon 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
“The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“The fact is that a true human privilege is based upon the anatomical privilege only in virtue of the total situation. Psychoanalysis… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“... no one could say, looking at her lined, pale and puffy face, the shapeless garish sack she had double-pinned around her,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel 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 focused on the puzzling development of conscience. He reasoned that the child begins life with a sense that all are present… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us… — Anonymous 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
“Groddeck, that strange pupil of Freud, claimed that in reality our powers of smell are as sharp as those of a dog,… — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image