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Freud was just a novelist.
Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.
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.
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.