Creature Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

— Eric Kandel

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

— Dean Cavanagh

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

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

— Carl Jung

“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a gigantic subterranean…

— Eva Ibbotson

“Worst of all was Freud. While not technically a brooding philosopher, Freud did much to shape our views on happiness. He once said: “The…

— Eric Weiner

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

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

“The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture,…

— Gilles Deleuze