165 Quotes About Psychoanalysis

It is also a terrible trait of men that they should be incapable of understanding the forces of the universe intuitively, otherwise than in terms of a psychology of wrath.

Možda spašavate nekoga zato što ste snažna, velikodušna, sređena osoba koja želi učiniti pravu stvar. Ali moguće je - i, možda, čak vjerojatnije - da samo želite usmjeriti pažnju na svoje neisrpive zalihe suosjećanja i dobre volje. (...) Ili možda zato što je lakše izgledati krjeposnim kada stojite pored nekoga posve neodgovorna. Prvo pretpostavite da činite najlakšu stvar, a ne onu najtežu.

Becoming is an antimemory.

Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain about having lost touch with the core of their psychic existence.

The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see if we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defense.

Indoctrination is the most effective weapon

Faith depends on unconscious pleasure, and so we hold onto our beliefs exactly as strongly as the pleasure they yield us.

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.

Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God’s voice can be heard