Psychoanalysis Quotes

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

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

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

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

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

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

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

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

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

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

My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.

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.

I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

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

Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to throw that in the mix.

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

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?

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

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

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?

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.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

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

notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination, growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil

Checked thoroughly, humans stink.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

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

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

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

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.