165 Quotes About Psychoanalysis

A Pill cannot make your Unconscious, Conscious.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.

Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?

A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

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

Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.