Life Quote by Andrew Solomon

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those…

— Dylan Thomas

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head…

— R. D. Laing

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones…

— Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

— Peter Gay

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Freud says that imagination is driven by primal and potentially savage desires.”

— Peter Gilboy

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes…

— Terry Eagleton