Quotes About Psychology

sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man—

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!

Wenn der Mensch sich selbst quälen kann, versäumt er so leicht keine Gelegenheit dazu.

So seltsam es scheinen mag, aber alle möglichen Probleme und Unglücke in dieser Welt kommen sehr oft von Menschen mit kleiner Statur; Sie haben einen viel streitsüchtigeren und energischeren Charakter als große Menschen.

Ja sam moderan ?ovek i vrlo sam sklon samouništenju.

Personality is built up largely by acts of introjection: contents that were before experienced outside are taken inside.

Only by killing the First Parents can a way be found out of the conflict into personal life.

by identifying his personal ego with the transpersonal in the shape of the collective values, the limited individual loses contact with his own limitations and becomes inhuman.

Starting in 1897, Henry Havelock Ellis devoted six volumes to it: his pioneering Studies in the Psychology of Sex, sprinkled with case studies of unexpected explicitness and perversity. One memorable phrase from volume four, Sexual Selection in Man: "the contact of a dog's tongue with her mouth alone afterward sufficed to evoke sexual pleasure.

She lapsed into "melancholia," a sweet name for depression.

In man there is implanted a sporting instinct to side with the underdog, but this is in man, the individual. Mob psychology is different from individual psychology, and the psychology of the pack is to tear down the weaker and devour the wounded. Man may sympathize with the underdog, but he wants to side with the winner.

frequent spells of "ailing," during which there seemed to be nothing particularly wrong save a psychic maladjustment seeking a physical manifestation.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.

Unlike the baboon who gluts himself only on food, man nourishes himself mostly on self-esteem. It

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.

The sadist doesn't create a masochist; he finds him already made.

culture consists in the sum total of efforts we make to avoid being unhappy

The thing that has to be explained in human relations is precisely the fascination of the person who holds or symbolizes power. There is something about him that seems to radiate out to others and to melt them into his aura, a "fascinating effect," as Christine Olden called it, of "the narcissistic personality"3 or, as Jung preferred to call him, the "mana-personality.

There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.

It is all right to say, with Adler, that mental illness is due to problems in living,-but we must remember that life itself is the insurmountable problem.

Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.

Why are groups so blind and stupid?" men have always asked. "Because they demand illusions," answered Freud. They constantly give what is unreal precedence over what is real. And we know why. The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small, trembling animal who will decay and die. Illusion changes all of this, makes man seem important, vital to the universe, immortal in some way.

Generally, the more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in these symbolic extensions of ourselves.

When the average person…cannot hide his failure to be his own hero, then he bogs down in the failure of depression and terrible guilt.