Fear Quote by Eva Ibbotson

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

— J. G. Ballard

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

“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

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

“But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side…

— Carl Jung

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

— Siri Hustvedt

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a…

— Thomas Mann

“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

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

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and…

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, in Beyond the pleasure principle”

— Lee Vickers