I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown 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
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything. — Woody Allen 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
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
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have… — Woody Allen 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
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to… — Sean Connery 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
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
“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
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
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
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — 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
“The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered… — Gilles Deleuze 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
“[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
“For a psychoanalyst to be any good with Franny at all, he'd have to be a pretty peculiar type. I don't know.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“Einstein never asked Freud to meet or treat his son, nor did he seem impressed by the idea of psychoanalysis. “It may… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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