--- title: "5 Freudian Psychology Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Freudian Psychology quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Freudian Psychology sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/colin-wilson-8331_abraham-maslow_professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-con_618188.jpg" --- > [“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-conducted-a-series-of-researches/) [Colin Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/colin-wilson-8331_abraham-maslow_professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-con_618188.jpg) > [“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-e-stoll/lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and-his-inability-to-make-it/) [John E. Stoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-e-stoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/john-e-stoll-59031_dreams_lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and_1005205.jpg) > [In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-the-map-of-the-mind-it-is/) [Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/harold-bloom-3350_freud_in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-t_1528414.png) > [“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-described-brains-and-minds-as-if-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/yuval-noah-harari-100_having-sex_in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-des_2382625.jpg) > [“But as the 20th century dawned, Freudian psychology promoted the regressive notion that women suffer an intrinsic deficiency resulting in “penis envy.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-marler/but-as-the-20th-century-dawned-freudian-psychology-promoted-the/) [Joan Marler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-marler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/joan-marler-49746_freud_but-as-the-20th-century-dawned-freudian_2507066.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freudian-psychology/#itemlist", "name": "Freudian Psychology Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that health and optimism are far more positive principles in human psychology than Freud would ever have admitted. Man is a slave to the delusion that he is a passive creature, a creature of circumstance; this is because he makes the mistake of identifying himself with his limited everyday consciousness, and is unaware of the immense forces that lie just beyond the threshold of consciousness. But these forces, although he is unaware of them on a conscious level, are still a far more active influence in his life than any external circumstances. Freudian psychology, for all its achievements, has made a twofold error: it has tried to anatomize the human mind as a pathologist would dissect a corpse, and it has limited its researches to sick human beings. Sick men talk about their illness far more than healthy people talk about their health; in fact, healthy people are usually too absorbed in living to bother with self-revelation. Psychology has consequently been inclined to divide the world into sick people and “normal” people, regarding occasional super-normality as the exception; Maslow has shown that super-normality is a great deal commoner than would be supposed; in fact as common as sub-normality. Ordinarily healthy people often experience a sense of intense life-affirmation (which Maslow calls “peak experiences”); and examination of peak experiences has led Maslow to conclude that the evolutionary drive (which is so clear in art and philosophy) is as basic a part of human psychology as the Freudian libido or the Adlerian will to self-assertion. — Colin Wilson, “‘Six Thousand Feet Above Men and Time‘: Remarks on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard” (1965) (Wilson C. “Six Thousand Feet Above Men and Time”: Remarks on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard // Stanley C. (Ed.). Colin Wilson: Collected Essays on Philosophers. — Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 110–111.)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Colin Wilson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-conducted-a-series-of-researches/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/colin-wilson-8331_abraham-maslow_professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-con_618188.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/colin-wilson-8331_abraham-maslow_professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-con_618188.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0c/colin-wilson-8331_abraham-maslow_professor-a-h-maslow-for-example-has-con_618188.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Professor A. H. 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Stoll" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-e-stoll/lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and-his-inability-to-make-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/john-e-stoll-59031_dreams_lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and_1005205.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/john-e-stoll-59031_dreams_lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and_1005205.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/john-e-stoll-59031_dreams_lawrence-s-claims-for-the-vital-self-and_1005205.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian…” — John E. Stoll", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harold Bloom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-the-map-of-the-mind-it-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/harold-bloom-3350_freud_in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-t_1528414.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/harold-bloom-3350_freud_in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-t_1528414.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/harold-bloom-3350_freud_in-fact-it-is-shakespeare-who-gives-us-t_1528414.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. 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The army recruits young men just when their sexual drive is at its peak. The army limits the soldiers’ opportunities of actually having sex and releasing all that pressure, which consequently accumulates inside them. The army then redirects this pent-up pressure and allows it to be released in the form of military aggression.’ This is exactly how a steam engine works.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-described-brains-and-minds-as-if-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/yuval-noah-harari-100_having-sex_in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-des_2382625.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/yuval-noah-harari-100_having-sex_in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-des_2382625.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/yuval-noah-harari-100_having-sex_in-the-nineteenth-century-scientists-des_2382625.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. 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