Psychoanalysis Quotes

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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by… — Mircea Eliade
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the… — Sheila Jeffreys
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaismâ€™s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th centuryâ€™s way… — David Rakoff
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told. — Shulamith Firestone
I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he… — Rajneesh
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be… — Peter Medawar
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — S. N. Behrman
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of… — Ernest Becker
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… — Joseph Sobran
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — David Ruelle
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long… — Norman O. Brown
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freudâ€™s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Brenda Webster
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In… — Neel Burton
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. Itâ€™s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more… — Nora Ephron
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a… — Sigmund Freud
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. — Paul Lynde
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is… — Jeanette Winterson
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to… — Karl Kraus

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