“ Fortunately is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”
- Karen Horney- Copy
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“ It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. ”
- Marlon Brando- Copy
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“ But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead dead parent, for examplean be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. ”
- Jacques Derrida- Copy
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“ Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ”
- Karen Horney- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Psychoanalysis has changed American psychiatry from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us and the new and different concepts of illness and health. ”
- Karl A. Menninger- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the analysts already know what's in it — they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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