Quotes about Freud

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Freud was not entirely honest with himself when he said, “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise". — A. Cretan
It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early inve — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexu — Beatrix Campbell, Stolen Voices: The People And Politics Behind The Campaign To Discredit Childhood Testimony
That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - th — Sigmund Freud
[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigant — E.L. Doctorow
There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our per — Neel Burton, Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier ti — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us. — Sigmund Freud
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fac — Noam Chomsky
The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you nee — Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
I could say it all began with my mother. — Shannon Celebi
Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, label — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of d — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individual — Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious worl — David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays
What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start. — Carole Nelson Douglas
The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: — Milan Kundera
Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images — Peter Redgrove
The abject impulse is inalienably connected with the feminine, specifically the maternal. As it forms out of the undefin — Nick Mansfield