Psychoanalysis Quotes
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psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What
— Adam Phillips
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
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
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
— Karl Kraus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.
— Muriel Barbery
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
Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience
— Christopher Marshall
