Happens Quote by Nathalie Sarraute

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in…

— Saul Bellow

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Erich Fromm

“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of unconscious thought.…

— Nigel Warburton

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

— Karl Kraus

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it…

— Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in…

— Anonymous

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

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to…

— Anonymous

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

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

— Richard P. Feynman