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
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
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 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 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
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
“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
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier 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
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
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
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom 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
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
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
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
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
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so… — Erich Fromm 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
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
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
