Conditions Quote by Ellen Willis

“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's…

— Phillip Lopate

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

— Eric Kandel

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

— Peter Gay

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft

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

— J. G. Ballard

In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse…

— J.R. Ward

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance,…

— Virginia Henley

“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

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and…

— Mary Butts

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones…

— Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini