Freud Quote by Chaim Potok

“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide,…

— Peter Redgrove

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a…

— Thomas Mann

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation,…

— Theodor Adorno

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new…

— Thomas Mann

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

— Chaim Potok

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes…

— Terry Eagleton

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head…

— R. D. Laing

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

“After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised”

— J. G. Ballard

“Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, in Beyond the pleasure principle”

— Lee Vickers