Psychoanalysis Quotes - Page 2

• 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 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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• The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

  Sigmund Freud

  Voice, Squash, Doe

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

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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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• Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Father

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

  Bette Davis

  Successful, Peculiar, Three

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• Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

  Saul Bellow

  Definitions, Conscious, Analysts

  Saul Bellow (2016). “The Dean's December”, p.245, Odyssey Editions

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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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• Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.

  Eugenia Sheppard

  World, Satisfaction, Massage

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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

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• There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Psychology, Electrical, Units

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

  Years, Listening, Six

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• I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

  Stanislav Grof

  School, Sitting, Lectures

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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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• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

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• Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

  D. M. Thomas

  Beautiful, Truth, Mean

  1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Evidence, Strict

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• If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

  Jacques Lacan

  Reality, Facts, Sexuality

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• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Experience

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

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• I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

  Albert Ellis

  Form, Deeper, Therapy

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• People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Wind, People

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

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