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
“Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of remaining… — Ramana Pemmaraju 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
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
“A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles 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
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
“if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung 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
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more… — Anonymous 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
“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel 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
I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
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