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Psychoanalysis Quotes

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer
Confession, Psychoanalysis, Absolution

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

Karen Horney
Miracle, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis
Karen Horney (1950). “The Collected Works of Karen Horney: Self analysis. Neurosis and human growth”

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

Shulamith Firestone
Order, Psychoanalysis, Unimportant
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Diane Keaton
Said, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalysis
"Diane Keaton Talks Aging, Sex And Having Plastic Surgery" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 23, 2012.

Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.

Matthew Arnold
Done, Breasts, Psychoanalysis
Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Mason Cooley
Literature, Fees, Psychoanalysis

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Karl Kraus
Dream, Pockets, Psychoanalysis
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.105, Syracuse University Press

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

Germaine Greer
Mother, Father, Psychoanalysis
The Female Eunuch (1970)

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

Erica Jong
Answers, Analysts, Psychoanalysis
Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Open Road Media

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

Muriel Barbery
Christian, Suffering, Psychoanalysis
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

Karl Kraus
Rabbits, Wanted, Psychoanalysis
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

Gloria Steinem
Home, Wanted, Psychoanalysis
Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.201, Open Road Media

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Scales, Fascinating, Psychoanalysis
"Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.

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