Order Quote by Shulamith Firestone

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 considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

— John Malkovich

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

— Anuj

“I could see the value of recognizing thoughts for what they are—fleeting, gossamer, unsubstantial—but aren’t some thoughts connected to concrete realities that need to…

— Dan Harris

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction, and reasoning…

— Keith Barry

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

— Germaine Greer

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships,…

— Anonymous

Thoughts without words… Can that be?

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Erich Fromm

Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of…

— Ray Brassier