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“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

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the…

— Ernest Becker

“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant,…

— Jonathan Ned Katz

“But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side…

— Carl Jung

“Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the…

— Deborah Davis

“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted…

— Norman Doidge

“short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed…

— Otto F. Kernberg

This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge…

— Stanislav Grof

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of confidences” invented…

— Orhan Pamuk