Psychoanalytic Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that… — Tony Campolo
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as… — Jay E. Adams
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Ludwig Binswanger
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales,… — Jacques Lacan
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing… — John Patrick Shanley
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. — Jacques Lacan
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
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. — Anna Freud
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful… — Thomas Szasz
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they… — Amy Bloom
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method. — Erik Erikson
I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory… — Thomas R. Insel
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a… — Siri Hustvedt
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the… — Chaim Potok

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19 authors contributed a total of 21 Psychoanalytic Quotes as follows: