Admire Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

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

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry…

— Bob Dylan

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

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide,…

— Peter Redgrove

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's…

— Viggo Mortensen

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

“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

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this…

— Clare Boothe Luce

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

— Chaim Potok

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

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