Ancestor Quote by Norman Doidge

“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted…

— Norman Doidge

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

— Jacques Derrida

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than…

— Anonymous

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

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

— Karl Kraus

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts…

— Henrik Ibsen

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it…

— Christian Louboutin

“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed…

— Leila Aboulela

“I've never been afraid of ghosts. I live with them daily, after all. When I look in a mirror, my mother's eyes look back…

— Diana Gabaldon

I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

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

— Richard P. Feynman