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
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.” — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer… — Edmund Bergler Copy Share Image
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by… — Sherry Turkle 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
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the… — Eric Kandel 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
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no… — Marcel Proust 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
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly… — Anonymous 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
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as… — Fernando Haddad 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
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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