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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• 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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• 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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  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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• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  David Ruelle

  Baby, Science, Finding Yourself

  David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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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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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Confession, Absolution

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ambition, Character, Taught Us

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Mean, Reality

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

  Jacques Lacan

  Lines, May, Dimensions

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• I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis.

  Woody Allen

  Productive Life, Done, Prey

  "In Conversation: Woody Allen". Interview with Adam Moss, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

  Norman Doidge

  Past, Important Relationships, Haunting

  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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• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hands, Giving, Littles

  Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.

  Matthew Arnold

  Done, Breasts

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

  Paul Lynde

  Knowing, Actors, Comedy

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

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