Quotes About Psychology

The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well—for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?

If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Emotions are the nexxus between matter and mind, going back and forth between the two and influencing both.

If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy

Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

In The Interpretation of Dreams, published two years before his jocular announcement, Freud had laid down his first principle of understanding the problems of dreams: "A dream is the fulfillment of a wish.

The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

As our culture has shifted the locus of meaning in life away from God and onto individual psychology, we have created a moral yardstick that measures the success of a human life in terms of psychological well-being. As

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Finché non prenderai coscienza l'inconscio governerà la tua vita. E tu lo chiamerai destino.

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world.