Quotes about Freud

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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing. — Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are t — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, th — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped — Dennis Prager, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code
Es sind tausend Tropfenin einer Weltnur für uns gemachtTausend Tropfenwenn der Himmel weintund man dennoch lacht — Nina Hrusa
but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction. — Clarice Lispector
The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answ — Sigmund Freud
We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose an — Sigmund Freud
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimat — Kamand Kojouri
They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That' — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianit — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a mor — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of wh — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychia — John Irving
The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child between — Alexander Lowen, Fear of Life
Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time. — Ben Campbell, Kissing Freud