Freud Free Association Quotes

#1. As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

Richard Diebenkorn

#2. If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.

Miguel Ruiz

#4. If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Julia Roberts

#7. Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Rodger Kamenetz