Psychoanalysis Quotes

• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

  Woody Allen

  Music, Years, Play

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Essence, Cures

  "Freud and Man's Soul". Book by Bruno Bettelheim, Letter to Carl Jung (1906), 1984.

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• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Thinking, Morality

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Ego

  "A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis" (1917)

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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Powerful, Goal

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

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• Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Gains, Succeed

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• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  David Ruelle

  Baby, Science, Finding Yourself

  David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Confession, Absolution

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

  Diane Keaton

  Said, Psychiatrist

  "Diane Keaton Talks Aging, Sex And Having Plastic Surgery" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 23, 2012.

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Norman O. Brown

  Science, Essence, Long

  Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Fees, Seems

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• Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• One day fascism will be treated with psychoanalysis.

  Ennio Flaiano

  One Day, Fascism, Treated

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• 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

  Giving, Ego, Doe

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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

  Karl Kraus

  Dream, Pockets, Picks

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

  Paul Lynde

  Knowing, Actors, Comedy

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

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

  Nora Ephron

  Children, Successful, Parent

  The Guardian, June 26, 1995.

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• As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

  Jacques Lacan

  Lines, May, Dimensions

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