“Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
“But the boys' bicycle pack also sent a stab of envy through me. If I couldn't yet capture John Cleary with my… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“My whole life I’d lived off the one wretched ambition that still possessed me: to be more than I was; to reject… — Mela Hartwig Copy Share Image
“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective… — Jessica Benjamin Copy Share Image
In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration,… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Dream by dream I am educating myself to become that rare character, rarer, in truth, than any member of the Psychoanalytic Institute,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed… — Ludwig Binswanger Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
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