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
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
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification,… — Sherwin B. Nuland 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
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
“In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us… — Anonymous 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
“The classic psychoanalytical interpretation of la belle indifférence is that it is evidence that an intrapsychic conflict has been converted and kept… — Jon Stone 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
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up… — Albert Ellis 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 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
“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
“if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's… — David Rakoff 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
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
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
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, in Beyond the pleasure principle” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
