Freud Quotes

136 quotes by 118 authors

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen â€” or… — John Ralston Saul
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease. — Philip Rieff
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it. — Arnon Goldfinger
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures… — Peter York
Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only… — John Ciardi
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the… — Sam Keen
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. — Germaine Greer
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. — Stanislav Grof
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and… — David Ben-Gurion
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same.… — Umberto Eco
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. — Albert Ellis
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my… — Vera Farmiga
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film… — Hugh Hefner
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't… — John Irving
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary… — Tony Kushner
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud… — Jacques Lacan
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. — Jacques Lacan
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 which… — R. D. Laing

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