Bernard shaw Quote by Robert M. Hutchins

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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 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 the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

“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've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

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

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

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

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those…

— Dylan Thomas

“Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did…

— William Faulkner