American literature Quote by Gore Vidal

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

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

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those…

— Dylan Thomas

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

— Gene Wilder

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

“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

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

— Italo Calvino