Psychoanalysis Quotes

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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it… — Saul Bellow
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked… — Tony Campolo
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother — Robin Williams
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those… — Mignon McLaughlin
My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to… — Sigmund Freud
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is… — Frederick Salomon Perls
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure — Karl Kraus
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness… — Sigmund Freud
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. — Jacques Lacan
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings… — Melanie Klein
Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
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

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