Quotes of Freud - somelinesforyou

“ Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. ”

- Ian Shoales

“ Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone…The human self defines itself and grows through love AND work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that. ”

- Betty Friedan

“ Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system… ”

- John R. Searle

“ He often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love. ”

- Theodor Reik

“ Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it. ”

- John Gould

“ I grew up a Jehovah's Witness because my grandmother was really influencing that lifestyle on me. That is a very morally intense religion. And although they keep you from experiencing a lot of the bad things that can really hurt you out there in the world, they are also depriving you from experiencing life… Whenever I would visit my dad, it was like Freud and Darwin… So I grew up torn… ”

- Michelle Rodriguez

“ Every landscape appears first of all as a vast chaos … . demonstrate that understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another; that the true reality is never the most obvious; and that the nature of truth is already indicated by the care it takes to remain elusive… … ”

- Claude Levi Strauss
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