“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer 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
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
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White 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
“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 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
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton 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
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
“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
Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze… — Eugenia Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
