Both Quote by Will Self Download Open image “The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.” — Will Self ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Both Enemy Fear Fears Novelist Novelists Quite Usurpers
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.” — Christian Baloga Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried with him… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying… — Will Self Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y… — Will Self Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides. — Bill Luther Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them.… — Bethany Mota Copy Share Image
I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me. — Kartik Aaryan Copy Share Image
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you… — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition. — Thomas E. Donilon Copy Share Image
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well,… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
