Deal Quote by Gene Wilder

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

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

— Margaret Trudeau

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

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

“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 just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Dario Argento

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

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

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or…

— Bat for Lashes

The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

— Elif Batuman

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