Psychoanalysis Quotes

• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Essence, Cures

  "Freud and Man's Soul". Book by Bruno Bettelheim, Letter to Carl Jung (1906), 1984.

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• Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

  Woody Allen

  Music, Years, Play

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Ego

  "A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis" (1917)

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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Confession, Absolution

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

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• In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Fees, Seems

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• miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

  Karen Horney

  Miracle, Psychiatry

  Karen Horney (1950). “The Collected Works of Karen Horney: Self analysis. Neurosis and human growth”

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• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Recovery, Decision, Use

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• Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving, Ego, Doe

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

  Nora Ephron

  Children, Successful, Parent

  The Guardian, June 26, 1995.

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• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Anger, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

  Norman Doidge

  Fear, Ghost, Ancestor

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

  Michel Foucault

  Essentials, Limits, Sovereign

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• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

  Robert Hughes

  Sex, Landscape Painting, Novel

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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