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“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.”
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)”
Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”
Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.”
Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious
“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.”
“Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure”
“Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.”
Source: Journal II, 1957-1969
“Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“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.”
Source: The Dean's December
“Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.”
“Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.”
“Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals”
Source: Anti-Oedipus
“Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits”
Source: Skeptical Engagements
“Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.”
“Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.”
“Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression”
Source: Anti-Oedipus
“Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.”
“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”
Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.”
“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”
“Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”
Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
“Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.”
“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.”
“Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.”
“Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.”
Source: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
“Psychoanalytic investigation of the individual teaches with especial emphasis that god is in every case modelled after the father and that our personal relation to god is dependent upon our relation to our physical, fluctuating and changing with him, and that god at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.”
“Psychoanalytic questions regarding the suppression of instinctual factors from our animal nature must come to the key piece that will unite the understanding of modern man's mental health in the influence of all other faculties.”
Source: Consciência: Delírios e Galopes
“Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.”
“Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.”
Source: Killosophy
“Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”
“Psychobilly itself is the bastard of all music genres, and a bastardisation of many”
Source: Hells Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly
“Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.”
Source: The Phenomenon of Man
“Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.”
Source: The New Psychohistory
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.”
“Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass.”
Source: Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
“Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.”
“Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.”
Source: Ómorphi
“Psychological and spiritual components are as important or more important for you . Thoughts and feelings can change neurochemistry , just as chemistry can change feeling and behavior .”
Source: Lily, Be Free
“Psychological astrology has, like the old Roman god Janus, a double face. It can provide a surgical scalpel which cuts through to the underlying motives, complexes, and family inheritance which lie behind the manifest problems and difficulties which the individual faces; and it can also provide a lens through which can be viewed the teleology and purpose of our conflicts in context of the overall meaning of the individual's journey.”
Source: The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 1
“Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.”
“Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.”
“Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the art of being able to enter a state of awareness that is deeply blissful, and beyond thought and feeling as such. Many people have become disillusioned with religions and, as such, have turned away from pursuing anything spiritual. That create a loss of sense of purpose and a lot of anger. Sure, there are all sorts of problems with organised religions, but there are also all sorts of problems with the world of 'science' too.”
“psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.”
“Psychological health encompasses more than just the absence of illness. It involves resilience, self-awareness, and a willingness to seek help when needed.”
“Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.”
“Psychological knowledge has made us dull.”
Source: Kalachakra Meditations: Based on the Discussions Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm in the Ending of Time
“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”
Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud