Forget Quote by Peter Gay

“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

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

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes…

— Terry Eagleton

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 just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

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

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

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

— Chaim Potok

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

— Tom Stoppard

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

— Robert E. Ornstein