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We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger
Illegal Things, Envy, Wish

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Karl A. Menninger
Inspirational, Reality, Honestly

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

Karl A. Menninger
Europe, America, Optimism

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

Karl A. Menninger
Fear, Voice, Ignored
The Progressive, October 1955.

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

Karl A. Menninger
Psychology, Understanding, Technique

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

Karl A. Menninger
Life, Wish To Die, Giving

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

Karl A. Menninger
Guy, Police, Bad Guys

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

Karl A. Menninger
War, Games, Play

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