Top Psychoanalysis Quotes

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

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

It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.

I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his...

Σε ένα σύμπαν όπου όλοι αναζητάμε το αληθινό πρόσωπο κάτω από το προσωπείο, ο καλύτερος τρόπος να παραπλανήσουμε είναι να φορέσουμε το προσωπείο της ίδιας της αλήθειας

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens an...

Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It...

Reality is for those who cannot face their dream.

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.

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

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering o...

Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of cra...

You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to s...

[…] dat er een basisindeling is in de wegen van de mens: zij die gemoedsrust en geluk verlangen moeten geloven en het geloof omarmen, terwijl zij die de waarheid willen zoeken van gemoedsrust moeten a...

Here’s the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. How are you? asks one. Eh, not so good, says the other. I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was visitin...

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

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

A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, f...

In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would...