I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“My Freudian Id is not a pleasant person. I ignored the smug son of a bitch.” — Shayne Silvers Copy Share Image
'The Pink Lady' rides the Freudian wave. You know, the big lady, the relationship to mom - those things are obviously part… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that 'Twin Peaks' came up with a whole new Pandora's Box… — Carel Struycken Copy Share Image
I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically… — Jonathan Ned Katz Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject… — Mela Hartwig Copy Share Image
“If one interprets 'penis envy' as other Freudian concepts have been reinterpreted, in the light of our new knowledge that what Freud… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained… — Albert Ellis 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
“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been… — Paul La Farge 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
“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
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
