Analysts Quote by Saul Bellow

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious…

— Nathalie Sarraute

At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and,…

— Sigmund Freud

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and…

— Tucker Max

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

— Erich Fromm

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

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 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

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

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

— Eckhart Tolle

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 that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world,…

— Sigmund Freud