I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“Many people talk about messages everywhere, inside the organism a hormone is a message, a beam of light to obtain teleguidance to… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked.” Julian pulled himself closer and rested his head in the crook of Paul’s… — Micah Nemerever Copy Share Image
“Why we ask questions: Questions are the basis of human freedom. Our mind, as a part of our self experience, is curious… — Christopher Bollas Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Leon was less withdrawn, more friendly, and he was, much of the time, in contact with reality. He was, in other words,… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“ On Christmas. "Santa Claus represents God on assistance," said Clyde. "Santa Claus is a negative-idealed god, the pagan god of material… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future? — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Human nature and behavior cause action, but through action an attempt is made to change attitude.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be… — Rennie Airth Copy Share Image
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished… — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there.… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult… — Annie Rogers Copy Share Image
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. Contudo, tenho declarado claramente… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
