Analysts Quote by Theodor Reik

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of…

— Herbert Marcuse

“To understand the phenomenon of avoidance in TMS one must constantly bear in mind how radically the unconscious mind differs from its conscious counterpart.…

— John E. Sarno

“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in…

— George Eliot

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“You need to pay attention to the situation, the new behavior, or the memory that you want to repeat or remember.”

— John B. Arden

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

— Sara Gruen

“In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and others frequently…

— Anna Salter

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

— Varlam Shalamov

“The whole experience was prime material for memory repression. I”

— Bobby Adair

“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch,…

— Megan Hart

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

— Jeanette Winterson

You cannot escape memories, but you can make better ones

— Albert Ong