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psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What — Adam Phillips

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? — Umberto Eco

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. — John Malkovich

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic. — Raheel Farooq

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D.H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard — Hermann Hesse

One day fascism will be treated with psychoanalysis. — Ennio Flaiano

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything. — Woody Allen

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. — Karl Kraus

What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

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

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting. — Nora Ephron

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus

In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor — Italo Svevo

To become strong, analyse yourself first. You must detect your weaknesses to overcome them. — Eraldo Banovac

A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself. — Marcel Proust

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity. — Jorge Luis Borges

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing. — Jacques Lacan

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told. — Shulamith Firestone

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — S. N. Behrman

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. — Peter De Vries

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. — Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom. — Alison Bechdel

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease. — Debasish Mridha

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

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions. — John Katzenbach

Psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring. — Richard Feynman

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be. — Mason Cooley

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

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits — Frederick Crews

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando

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

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. — Jacques Derrida

Unconscious motivating forces play a central role in shaping our behavior, but they are also the primary cause of mental illness. — Christian Jarrett

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else. — Karen Horney

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure — Karl Kraus

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel

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

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. — Germaine Greer

In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go. — Steve Martin

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. — Salvador Dali

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud

I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis. — Sigmund Freud

Again, your name? I was psychoanalyzing your face. — Brian Spellman

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money. — Nora Ephron

Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. — Matthew Arnold

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. — Jacques Lacan

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever ... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable. — Clarice Lispector

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! — Gilles Deleuze

From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319) — Jacques Lacan

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... — Iris Murdoch

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. — Wilhelm Reich

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. — Erich Fromm

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. — Wilhelm Reich

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. — Karen Horney

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. — Diane Keaton

...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing. — Robert A. Johnson

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. — G.K. Chesterton

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question? — Erica Jong

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D.H. Lawrence

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. — Germaine Greer

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

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish] — Sigmund Freud

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything. — Sean Connery

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets. — Karl Kraus

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis. — John Horne Burns

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? — Bash

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience — Christopher Marshall

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. — Gloria Steinem