Alarms Quote by Mary Butts

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

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

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets…

— Richard Cohen

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

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

— Peter Gay

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

— Peter Gay

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

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

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of…

— Ken Dodd

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of…

— Herbert Read