Admire Quote by Nathalie Sarraute

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and…

— Mary Butts

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you…

— Harold Bloom

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

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's…

— Viggo Mortensen

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

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

— Peter Gay

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

— Dean Cavanagh