Adult life Quote by Herbert Read

“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“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

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

— Peter Gay

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.

— Anne Applebaum

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation,…

— Theodor Adorno

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

“Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not…

— Peter Cole

“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

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

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

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

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

— Robert E. Ornstein