Psychoanalysis Quotes

(on psychoanalysis) Four visits. I kept laughing. I couldn`t get serious. If it helps you, it helps you. If standing on your head on the roof helps you, it helps you - if you think so.

I don`t know who the hell Paul Lynde is or why he`s funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me. An actor shouldn`t undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you`re better off not knowing.

An actor shouldn`t undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you`re better off not knowing.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead'”a dead parent, for example'”can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis.

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.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they`re complex.