We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann 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
“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
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls… — Simon Critchley 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
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions. — John Katzenbach Copy Share Image
“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles 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
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is… — Sigmund Freud 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
This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this… — Zulima Farber Copy Share Image
