Quotes with psychoanalysis

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  • Sir Peter Medawar Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Albert Ellis I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Albert Ellis I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Sigmund Freud It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Michel Foucault Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Szasz Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bette Davis Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Walter Benjamin The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Karl Kraus The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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