Quotes About Psychoanalytic Theory

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Michael Franti

#5. She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.

Alyson Richman

#6. Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

Natalie Du Toit

#7. We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

Benjamin Carson

#8. To know a being's secret name is to have power over that creature.

Rick Riordan

#9. Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.

Stephnie Weir

#10. The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#11. We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

John Stott

#12. His voice was soft and demanding. "How could you think I was pretending?"
Damn if he didn't sound sincere.

Aria Kane

#13. She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

Dodie Smith