Books Quote by Marshall McLuhan

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

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 poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

“After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised”

— J. G. Ballard

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the…

— Lionel Trilling

“Freud says that imagination is driven by primal and potentially savage desires.”

— Peter Gilboy

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that…

— Carl Sagan

“If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and…

— Cathy Caruth

“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a gigantic subterranean…

— Eva Ibbotson

“The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture,…

— Gilles Deleuze

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