Conscious Quote by Jacques Lacan

“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

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

— Margaret Trudeau

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

— Robert E. Ornstein

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

“Thus Freud's discoveries, for example, far from unveiling for us a realm which is genuinely new, a knowledge that is other than conscious knowledge,…

— Sandor Goodhart

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 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

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

— Robert H. Schuller

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

— Chaim Potok

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

— Richard Bonynge