College Quote by Elif Batuman

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

— Henry Reed

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm

“FLEISCHMANN: Since the days of Sigmund Freud and the advent of psychoanalysis the interpretation of dreams has played a big role in Austria[n life].…

— Thomas Bernhard

“his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly…

— Sigmund Freud

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as…

— Anonymous

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily…

— Erich Fromm

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

“Focus on your dreams, not on your critics.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“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

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell