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Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds…

— Claes Oldenburg

“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

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

— Tom Stoppard

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

“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 don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would…

— Nathalie Sarraute

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean…

— D. M. Thomas

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry…

— Bob Dylan

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

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

— Dario Argento