Quotes Tagged With :psychoanalysis

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but....

Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive....

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist....

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human....

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my....

Psychoanalysis has suffered the accusation of being “unscientific” from its very beginnings (Schwartz,....

There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them....

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient....

Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility,....

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.