This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.
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.
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.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.
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.
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.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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.
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