Freud Quotes

136 quotes by 119 authors

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might… — Harold Bloom
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating… — Harold Bloom
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never… — Ian Shoales
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than… — Stanley Kubrick
If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is… — Pope Francis
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. — Robert Frost
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.… — Jeanette Winterson
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers. — Sigmund Freud
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without… — Camille Paglia
Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a… — Camille Paglia
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. — Stanislav Grof
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, VelÃ¡squez - artists who get to the… — Jenny Saville
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to… — Albert J. Nock
Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse — Dean Cavanagh
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient… — Theodor Reik
Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men. — Sarah Schulman
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. — Peter Gay
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freudâ€™s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Brenda Webster

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