Karl Kraus Quotes About Psychoanalysis

Quotes about: Psychoanalysis

• Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Mental Illness, Cures

• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• 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.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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

  Karl Kraus

  Rabbits, Wanted, Psychoanalysis

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

  Karl Kraus

  World, Occupation, Causes

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

• Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Sick, Proud

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Pockets, Psychoanalysis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.105, Syracuse University Press

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