Cases Quote by Carl Jung

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

— Sigmund Freud

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

— R Z Sheppard

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial…

— Carl Jung

“But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and…

— Robertson Davies

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they…

— Albert Ellis

“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…

— Adam Phillips

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as…

— Thomas Merton

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks.

— Sigmund Freud

“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.”

— Hans Eysenck

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”

— G.K. Chesterton