Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley 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
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz 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
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
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
“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
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
“(Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man’s prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that… — John Cage 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
This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this… — Zulima Farber Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney 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
“The repeated attempts that have been made to improve humanity - in particular to make it more peacable - have failed, because… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time,… — Theodore Dalrymple 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
“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
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando 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
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
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
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
