Christmas Quote by David Rakoff

If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s…

— David Rakoff

Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as…

— Viggo Mortensen

“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…

— Adam Phillips

“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of confidences” invented…

— Orhan Pamuk

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

“Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

— Karl Kraus

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company…

— Frank Herbert

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

— D. H. Lawrence