We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call… — Ernest Becker 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 aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.” — Jorge Luis Borges 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
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear… — Eric Kandel 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
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
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
