Freud Psychoanalysis Quotes

#1. The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Sigmund Freud

#2. Unconscious motivating forces play a central role in shaping our behavior, but they are also the primary cause of mental illness.

Christian Jarrett

#3. Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

#5. When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Sigmund Freud

#6. 'Power Rangers' is a massive global brand, and we believe that filmmaker Dean Israelite's singular vision will not only thrill a generation of existing fans but will bring magic to a whole new global audience.

Jon Feltheimer

#7. I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous
but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a piece of bread in your mouth and suck on it you'll go to heaven.

Anna Quindlen

#8. The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

#10. I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Stanislav Grof

#11. The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient's conversion to the therapist's interpretation.

Adolf Grunbaum

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

Sigmund Freud

#13. Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Sigmund Freud

#14. Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.

Sigmund Freud

#15. I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud

#16. It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved.

Sigmund Freud

#17. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Sarah Palin

#18. Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality.

Tim Farrington

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

Sigmund Freud

#20. Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Germaine Greer

#21. Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

D.M. Thomas

#22. It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Sigmund Freud

#23. Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. HARV, can you help at all here?" I asked, spinning downward.
"I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it," HARV told me.
If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.

John Zakour

#25. My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

Sigmund Freud

#26. Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

#27. Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to throw that in the mix.

DJ Spooky

#28. This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

Sigmund Freud

#29. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Ben Carson

#30. To find out how much protein you need, take your weight and divide it by three. Rest assured, a whole foods, varied plant-based diet will give you all the protein you need.

Sharon Gannon

#31. What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#32. The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel