Psychoanalysis Quotes - Page 3

• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

  Norman Doidge

  Fear, Ghost, Ancestor

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

  Woody Allen

  Change, Film, Form

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• Qué progresos estamos haciendo. En la Edad Media me habrían quemado. Ahora se contentan con quemar mis libros.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vida, Tiempo, Libro

  Sigmund Freud (2016). "Tres contribuciones a la teoría del sexo (anotadas)", p.18, Sigmund Freud

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

  S. N. Behrman

  Simple, Discovery, People

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• Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

  Frederick Crews

  Phrenology, Reason, Recruit

  Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

  Erica Jong

  Answers, Analysts

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  God, Father, Special

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

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• miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

  Karen Horney

  Miracle, Psychiatry

  Karen Horney (1950). “The Collected Works of Karen Horney: Self analysis. Neurosis and human growth”

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• But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Order, Unimportant

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). "LA DIALÉCTICA DEL SEXO: ARGUMENTOS A FAVOR DE LA REVOLUCIÓN FEMINISTA".

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• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• 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 and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Reality, Years

  "Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945". Book by Melanie Klein, p. 173, 2002.

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• Los pobres necesitan trabajo y dinero, no psicoanálisis. Las personas sin educación necesitan conocimientos y habilidades, no psicoanálisis.

  Thomas Szasz

  Jobs, Skills, Needs

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.28, Syracuse University Press

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• 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.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe, Income, Disease

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• My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Recovery, Decision, Use

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• El psicoanálisis es esa enfermedad mental para la que se considera terapia.

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

  Karl Kraus (1976). "Verdades a medias y verdades a medias: aforismos seleccionados".

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• We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

  Anais Nin

  People, Attention, Pay

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• There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

  Erica Jong

  Vienna, Six, Married

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 01, 2015

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• 

  El psicoanálisis ha enseñado que los muertos -un padre muerto, por ejemplo- pueden estar más vivos para nosotros, ser más poderosos, dar más miedo, que los vivos. Es la cuestión de los fantasmas.

  Jacques Derrida

  Powerful, Parent, Scary

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• La mayoría de la gente no quiere realmente la libertad, porque la libertad implica responsabilidad, y a la mayoría de la gente le asusta la responsabilidad.

  Sigmund Freud

  Liderazgo, Libertad, Filosofía

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• El que tiene ojos para ver y oídos para oír puede convencerse de que ningún mortal puede guardar un secreto. Si sus labios callan, parlotea con las yemas de los dedos; la traición le rezuma por todos los poros.

  Sigmund Freud

  Traición, Ojo, Guardar Secretos

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Weakness, Dogma

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.114, Syracuse University Press

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• El paisaje es a la pintura americana lo que el sexo y el psicoanálisis a la novela americana.

  Robert Hughes

  Sex, Landscape Painting, Novel

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• Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

  Michel Foucault

  Essentials, Limits, Sovereign

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

  Sean Connery

  Phrases, Excuse, Behavior

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