Psychoanalysis Quotes

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple,...

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life m...

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority...

Any critique of Islam is denounced as an expression of Western Islamophobia, Salman Rushdie is denou...

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth,...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individua...

A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like ...

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is ...

Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontolog...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...

In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more import...

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...

And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not...

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cog...

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is...

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in m...

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patie...

It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties an...

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can func...

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that ...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλ...

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting ...

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...