“The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.” — Robert A. Johnson 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
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
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
“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.” — Alison Bechdel 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
“Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of… — Christopher Bollas 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 read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin 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
“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You… — Robert Kurvitz Copy Share Image
