When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Human nature and behavior cause action, but through action an attempt is made to change attitude.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich fromm Copy Share Image
“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult… — Annie Rogers Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there.… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
