Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a… — Miltiades Zaphiropoulous Copy Share Image
“The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich fromm Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It is quite natural to think of the self as something concrete, but it is, in fact, nothing of the sort. Rather,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’… — Terry Eagleton 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
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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