Quotes About Psychology

Anyone who remains a Freudian, a Kleinian, a Lacanian, a Winnicottian and so on has got stuck in, stuck with, their fear of their chosen Master.

In shame there is a loss of interest in the external world, and a loss of interest in what is or may be good about the self. Shame is the ethnic cleansing of the self.

In Freud's story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can't let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can't get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure.

Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness -- meaning recognize it as yours -- then one can take some fear out of the world.

Poetry is the intuitive explanation of the unconscious mind

Our habits of thought are stronger than strait-waistcoats. We walk about with habit-coloured spectacles before our eyes, and see everything as we are accustomed to see it.' He

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:

The great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Imparai l'importanza del dolore fisico nei confronti del singolo come della massa. Anche qui è necessario un calcolo preciso degli effetti psicologici: il terrore sarà sempre accompagnato dal successo, se non vi si oppone un identico terrore

Hatred toward reifying psychology removes from the living that which would make them other than reified.

Why is it that an insult stays with you forever, whereas love and praise passes through you like water through a sieve?

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I played at the highest level, so I know what kind of things go through a player's mind and how he might behave, what patterns will crop up in the day-to-day routine.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

The environment shapes people's actions.