Top 40 Psychoanalytic Quotes

#1. People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Adam Phillips

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#2. Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.

Debasish Mridha

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#3. She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#4. Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Anna Freud

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#5. You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Robert Gottlieb

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#6. Clenched fists are not open to receive blessings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#7. Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

Karl A. Menninger

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#8. Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Alison Bechdel

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#9. Jake's pulse quickened when he realized that for the first time in his life, he was looking straight into the honest eyes of love.

Loree Lough

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#10. Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.

Roshani Chokshi

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#11. I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

Teena Marie

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#12. What had Frank called college? An advanced degree in compromise.

Barack Obama

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#13. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

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#14. Why on earth would I try to escape the vile tyrant keeping me held hostage? I have no idea.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

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#15. Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression.

Rollo May

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#16. I'd been rushing to a finish line, and I'd failed to enjoy the run along the way.

Kerry Lonsdale

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#17. 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Anonymous

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#18. Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

Tony Campolo

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#19. The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Jacques Lacan

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#20. I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

Thomas R. Insel

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#21. Fear is a premeditated feeling of something that hasn't occurred yet, thus it is false.

Bianca Frazier

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#22. Neither he [Ferenczi] nor Freud believed that a person should be exempted from legal punishment
or worse, that he should be punished by compulsory psychiatric "treatments"
because of psychoanalytic information about him. In the light of current thought, this is a startling and sobering fact.

Thomas Szasz

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#23. In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Hans Eysenck

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#24. Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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#25. When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Tom Brady

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#26. Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Caryl Rivers

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#27. And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

Robert Jay Lifton

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#28. Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.

Siri Hustvedt

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#29. The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Herbert Marcuse

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#30. Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Karl Abraham

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#31. I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Michael Sheen

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#32. Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Chaim Potok

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#33. The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

Erik Erikson

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#34. We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance.

Kass Morgan

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#35. Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

Stanislaw Lem

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#36. The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

Jacques Lacan

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#37. Her mouth drops open in disbelief. Your dad tried to blackmail the mob? Has he never seen The Godfather?

M. Leighton

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#38. She put down her porridge bowl and tried the tea. It was, somehow, worse than she'd expected: not just bitter, but so astringent that it curdled her tongue. It woke her up, though, and that was the point.

Liane Merciel

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#39. I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

Siri Hustvedt

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#40. Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Roland Barthes

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