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“If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that I’m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?”

Ifs World Way Mean Doe Spiritual Father Religious Century Findings Late Window Stores Posts Holiday Secular 20th Century Judaism Psychoanalysis 19th Century Retail Religious Holiday

Author:David Rakoff

“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.”

Made Three Actors Loses Successful Decided Analysis Peculiar Three Times Psychoanalysis

Author:Bette Davis

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

Order Psychoanalysis Unimportant

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he was getting bored by and by - three, four, five years of psychoanalysis, and the man was repeating the same again and again and again. The psychiatrist said, 'Do one thing: go to the mountains for a few days. That will be very helpful.'”

Men Years Said Enough Happiness Three Courses Five Four One Thing Heard He Man Mountain Patient Bored Five Years Helpful Again And Again Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis

Author:Rajneesh

“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.”

World Ends America Science Modern Century Products Theory Ruins Modern World Twentieth Century Psychoanalysis Dinosaurs Saddest Zeppelins Landmarks Entirety

Author:Peter Medawar

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

People Feels Simple Psychology Wonderful Discovery Complexes Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis

Author:S. N. Behrman

“We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.”

Men Might Conditions Cost Mad Complexes Pretending Existential Penalties Psychoanalysis Denying The Truth

Book:The Denial of Death

Source: The Denial of Death

“Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.”

Mean Littles Games Constitution Psychoanalysis Ingenuity Defying Jurisprudence Meanings Of Words

Author:Joseph Sobran

“What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.”

Wells Littles Science One Thing Baby Scientist Asking Curiosity Explanation Urges Finding Yourself Mathematician Preparing Equations Physicist Psychoanalysis Irritating Differential Equations

Book:Chance and Chaos

Source: Chance and Chaos

“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Firsts Long States Science Common Known Poet Essence Absolutes Common Sense Paradox Equations Psychoanalysis Worthlessness Quadratic Equation

Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian personality, and led to the betrayal of his mentor, Josef Breuer. Breger’s analysis exposes a fascinating paradox: Freud both invented psychoanalysis and impoverished its development. A must-read for everyone interested in how ideas can change the world.”

“I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.”

Scales Engaged Fascinating Psychoanalysis

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the best part of his nature, which he obliviously passes on to the next generation of dreamers.”

Ifs Men Important Dream Next Lost Generations Modern Birth Function Historical Notion Interpretation Dreamer Next Generation Psychoanalysis Modern Man

Author:Neel Burton

“So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.”

Week Hair Uplifting Dry Psychoanalysis Cheaper Salons Beauty Salon

Author:Nora Ephron

“I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.”

People Thinking Mind Dream Plans Bears Habit Psychoanalysis

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.”

World Use Dream Race Psychoanalysis Dream World

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.”

Years Listening Six Quitting Criticize Articles Psychoanalysis Objections Analysts

Author:Albert Ellis

“I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.”

Form Deeper Therapy Psychoanalysis

Author:Albert Ellis

“An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.”

Actors Knowing Comedy Not Knowing Better Off Psychoanalysis

Author:Paul Lynde

“There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

Thinking Long Stills Feelings Emotion Fantasy Doors Emotional Poet Involved Objectives Subjective Psychoanalysis Mystic

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.”

Ifs Dream Picks Pockets Our Dreams Psychoanalysis

Book:Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

“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.”

Art Weakness Ultimate Aim Attributes Dogma Psychoanalysis Analytics

Book:Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

“Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.”

Existence Equal Existential Psychics Geometry Psychoanalysis Quarantine Hmmm Nicotine

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.”

Psychology Progress Society Theory Psychoanalysis Neurosis

Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.”

Ifs Mean Art Beautiful Growth Natural Tree Conditions Higher Shapes Perfection Method Prize Conception Artificial Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Cultivating Beautiful Art

Author:Carl Jung

“The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.”

Men Pay Fate He Man Curse Psychoanalysis Cursed

Author:John W. Gardner

“Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.”

Made Practice Psychology Risk Danger Cost Depth Technique Curious Psychoanalysis Degrade Impurity

Book:All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

“There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.”

Humans Human Beings Psychology Units Psychoanalysis Electrical Appliances Electrical Appliances

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.”

Home Wanted Psychoanalysis

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“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.”

Six Married Treated Flight Psychoanalysis Vienna

Author:Erica Jong

“Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?”

Answers Psychoanalysis Analysts

Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

“There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.”

Said Cases Psychology Psychoanalysis

Author:Carl Jung

“Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.”

Hard Facts Disease Sick Mere Perceive Psychoanalysis Bowels

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.”

Doe Desire Creative Products Accounts Analysis Neurotic Psychoanalysis

Author:Anais Nin

“Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.”

Humans Moral Conflict Function Relation Illness Myth Mental Illness Bitter Disguise Pills Psychoanalysis Human Relations

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.”

Needs Jobs Poor Skills Psychoanalysis Uneducated

Book:The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy

Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy

“Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.”

Persons Self Succeed Gains Patient Cooperation Justification Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Modifying Self Justification

Author:Thomas Szasz

“In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.”

Seems Literature Psychoanalysis Fees

Author:Mason Cooley

“To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?”

Past Known Masters Psychoanalysis Saddened

Book:The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck

“When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.”

Writing Kind Said Seems Able Heaven Too Much Promise Meetings Psychoanalysis Analysts

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.”

Four Letters Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy Four Letter Words

Author:Eric Hodgins

“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.”

Form Limits Essentials Madness Remains Stranger Enterprise Sovereign Psychiatry Psychoanalysis

Author:Michel Foucault

“I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.”

Said Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis

Author:Diane Keaton

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