An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“En ting er fagkyndig analyse, en annen ting kvaksalveranalyse og onaniterapi.” — Harald Schjelderup Copy Share Image
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of… — Christopher Bollas Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
It is likely enough that the patient will say, Why don't you say something? Or if not the patient, the relatives -… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
“Einstein never asked Freud to meet or treat his son, nor did he seem impressed by the idea of psychoanalysis. “It may… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“We have already seen that when positive authority suggests a change in behavior, the recipient will accept it provided he is capable… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.” — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
