Freud Quotes

136 quotes by 119 authors

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food. — Mark Forsyth
As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know,… — Peter Cushing
I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle. — Richard Wiseman
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most… — Carl Jung
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take… — Salvador Dali
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of… — Karl A. Menninger
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. — Bill Condon
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before… — Betty Friedan
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 again. — Ross Macdonald
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.… — Viktor E. Frankl
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any… — Harold Bloom
The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? — William Saroyan
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature… — Aaron Siskind
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 have… — Nathalie Sarraute
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13. — Megan Abbott
Freud was just a novelist. — Peter Ackroyd
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi

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