Freud Quotes

136 quotes by 118 authors

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You… — John Malkovich
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple. — Viggo Mortensen
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a… — Viggo Mortensen
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a… — Viggo Mortensen
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this… — Herbert Read
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened… — Jerry Saltz
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and… — Wallace Stevens
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since… — Robert Winston
But what Freud showed usâ€¦ was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in… — Jacques Lacan
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see againâ€¦ I knew… — Woody Allen
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often… — William H. Gass
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They… — Irving Stone
Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him… — Deb Caletti
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… — William Golding
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are… — Sigmund Freud
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We… — Iris Murdoch
Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a… — Eoin Colfer

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