Dinner Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

— Dean Cavanagh

Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us…

— Pam Farrel

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds…

— Claes Oldenburg

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— 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

“Few behaviors of other people are more irritating than those that display our own faults in an unattractive way.”

— John Verdon

Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as…

— Viggo Mortensen

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 called it ‘transference’. This basically means that you hate in others what you hate about yourself.)”

— James Dawson

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen —…

— John Ralston Saul

Freud: If its not one thing, its your mother.

— Robin Williams

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had…

— Ian Shoales