Psychoanalysis Quotes

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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid… — Orson Welles
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study… — J D Salinger
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… — Roland Barthes
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by… — Norman Doidge
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific… — Thomas Merton
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… — Gilles Deleuze
D.H. Lawrence had the impression â€“ that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. — Jacques Derrida
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead â€“ a dead parent, for example â€“ can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the… — Jacques Derrida
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing… — Anais Nin
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. — Donald Barthelme
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. — John Malkovich
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt… — Eric Kandel

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