Quotes about Psychoanalysis

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Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? — Bash
The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, — Karl R. Popper
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson, Zero History
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. — Wilhelm Reich
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the gener — Wilhelm Reich
As adults, we hvae many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childis — Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept — Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally ha — Robertson Davies, The Manticore
In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: succe — Erich Fromm
Although psychoanalysts, including Freud, tended to acknowledge sexual trauma as tragic and harmful (Freud, 1905b, 1917) — Matthew J. Friedman, Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice
Admitting the need for help may also compound the survivor's sense of defeat. The therapists Inger Agger and Soren Jense — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. — Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded — Sigmund Freud
That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic. — Raheel Farooq
Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, — Melanie Klein
young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mo — John Bowlby
Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something d — Annie Rogers, The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma
what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new. — Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire
Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some o — Christopher Bollas, The Infinite Question