Ambitious Quote by Anne Applebaum

“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

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

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of…

— Herbert Read

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

“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

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

— Eric Kandel

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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 the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation,…

— Theodor Adorno