Freudian Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;… — Bertrand Russell
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Bob Hope
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
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
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.… — Betty Friedan
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks… — Alastair Campbell
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But… — Nawal El Saadawi
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In… — Terence McKenna
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the… — Joseph Campbell
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked… — Toby Young
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… — Carl Sagan
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster… — John Walford
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way,… — Sarah Ruhl
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image… — Rachel Cusk
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and… — Albert Ellis
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer… — Thomas Mann
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. — Matt Smith
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
He grinned. â€œBusted. Iâ€™m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless â€” and shockingly handsome â€” alter ego.â€ â€œAnd Iâ€™m on top of it,â€ she… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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