What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline...… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“We assent to wifedom because we are so used to having someone to blame and so unused to freedom. We prefer self-punishment… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image