Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar 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
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
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
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung 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
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
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner 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
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
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
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 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
“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
I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis 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
“Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of remaining… — Ramana Pemmaraju 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
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen 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
At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it… — Sigmund Freud 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
