Psychoanalysis Quotes

116 quotes by 85 authors

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all… — Emile M. Cioran
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human… — Mignon McLaughlin
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. — Gloria Steinem
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. — Erica Jong
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question? — Erica Jong
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not… — Seneca the Younger
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the… — Thomas Szasz
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be. — Mason Cooley
To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future? — Maurice Maeterlinck
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much… — John Cage
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk. — Eric Hodgins
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite… — Andrew Sarris

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