Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families,… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome.… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image