Psychoanalysis Quotes

116 quotes by 85 authors

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It… — Eric Kandel
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after… — Eric Kandel
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both. — Siri Hustvedt
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all… — LaTanya Richardson
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for… — Marlon Brando
Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. — Sigmund Freud
I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in… — Stanislav Grof
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. — Germaine Greer
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. — R Z Sheppard
After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles. — Dennis Wolfberg
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — C.S. Lewis
It is likely enough that the patient will say, Why don't you say something? Or if not the patient, the relatives - Why don't you… — Wilfred Bion

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