Complexes Quote by Ernest Becker

Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby…

— Anonymous

“Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all…

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

— John Katzenbach

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

— Erich Fromm

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

— Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in…

— Anonymous

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person…

— Samuel Johnson

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor…

— Michel Foucault