Psychoanalysis Quotes

116 quotes by 85 authors

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,… — Michel Foucault
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. — Diane Keaton
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting… — Philip Rieff
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because… — Karl A. Menninger
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits — Frederick Crews
Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. — Matthew Arnold
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of… — Bill Vaughan
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. — Germaine Greer
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. — Germaine Greer
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very… — Bette Davis
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. — Albert Ellis
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
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that… — Stephen King
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a… — Jacques Lacan
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in… — Jacques Lacan
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But… — Steve Martin
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured… — Jane Smiley

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