Facts Quote by Jacques Lacan

We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a…

— Jennifer Morse

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that…

— Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious…

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— Erich Fromm

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's…

— Mary Roach

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever…

— Sigmund Freud

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but…

— Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when…

— Thomas Szasz