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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. — Sigmund Freud

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead."
"He's not dead; just very tired. — Libba Bray

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. — Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism. — Sigmund Freud

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start. — Carole Nelson Douglas

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something. — Esther Freud

One is very crazy when in love. — Sigmund Freud

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. — Sigmund Freud

Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are. — Anna Freud

Pleasure principle, a psychoanalytical term coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a predecessor of Sigmund Freud — Anonymous

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother — Anna Freud

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past. — Clement Freud

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. — Lucian Freud

Freud is finished, Einstein's next. — Don DeLillo

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother — Robin Williams

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud

I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health. — Susanna Kaysen

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. — Chaim Potok

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going. — Bella Freud

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. — Anna Freud

As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples. — Sigmund Freud

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud

While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal. — Eugenie Brinkema

Love and work ... work and love, that's all there is. — Sigmund Freud

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud

If it's not one thing, it's your mother. — Sigmund Freud

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. — Peter Gay

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. — Sigmund Freud

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers. — Matthew Freud

Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within. — Steve Jones

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. — Anna Freud

A LL THE ENTRIES in Freud's diary of his last decade are short. Very few are more than one line long. — Clive James

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. — Robert Frost

He wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. — Oliver Sacks

After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised — J.G. Ballard

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act. — Sigmund Freud

Thanks to the discrepancies between people's thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses. — Sigmund Freud

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? — Natalie Angier

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America. — Sigmund Freud

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

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it. — Arnon Goldfinger

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. — Sigmund Freud

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. — Sigmund Freud

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress. — Sigmund Freud

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught. — Lucian Freud

No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is just a loser — Nenia Campbell

The child is father of the man ... .attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time — Shirl Solomon

This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants. — Daniel Goleman

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple. — Viggo Mortensen

If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit — Clement Freud

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me? — J.M. Coetzee

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud

no serious book can now be sure of surviving. — Sigmund Freud

Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick. — Leah Raeder

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too. — Esther Freud

Freud was just a novelist. — Peter Ackroyd

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be. — Sigmund Freud

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. — Sigmund Freud

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. — Esther Freud

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. — Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt

Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance. — Sigmund Freud

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology. — Sigmund Freud

What's wrong with your father? Huh? Can't he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the baby Freud? — Benjamin R. Smith

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life. — Bella Freud

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity — Sigmund Freud

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss — Sigmund Freud

Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian. — Jonathan Rosenbaum

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners. — Sigmund Freud

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud

They love their delusions as they love themselves. — Sigmund Freud

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism. — Sigmund Freud

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me. — Anna Freud

The dream is not a somatic but a psychic phenomenon. You appreciate the significance — Sigmund Freud

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing. — Clement Freud

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. — Bella Freud

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement. — Sigmund Freud

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis — Sigmund Freud

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. — Sigmund Freud

Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. — Jennifer Egan

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli. — Sigmund Freud

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense. — Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. — Sigmund Freud

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud