Quotes About Psychology

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Man goes round in circles because the structure, the structure of man, is toric

Pada bahasa terdapat unsur ketaksadaran. Dalam ketidaksadaran inilah terdapat hasrat, dan hasarat manusia adalah hasrat akan yang lain. Yang simbolik ini ditandai dengan adanya kekurangan. Oleh karena adanya kekurangan inilah, maka manusia menghasrati sesuatu.

Ne büyük zafer olurdu. Ä°nsan sonunda herhangi bir baÅŸar? elde etmiÅŸ olurdu böylece; kendi y?k?m?n?.

Quel est donc cet autre à qui je suis plus attaché qu'à moi, puisqu'au sein le plus assenti de mon identité à moi-même, c'est lui qui m'agite ?

la historia del deseo se organiza como un discurso que se desarrolla en lo insensato. Esto es el inconsciente. Los desplazamientos y condensaciones en el discurso del inconsciente son sin duda alguna lo que en el discurso en general constituyen desplazamientos y condensaciones, o sea, metonimias y metáforas. Pero aquí son metáforas que no engendran sentido alguno, y desplazamientos que no transportan ningún ser y en los cuales el sujeto no reconoce algo que se desplace.

Çünkü gerçeÄŸin ay?rt edici özelliÄŸi hayal edilemez olmas?d?r. (...) EÄŸer gerçek diye bir kavram varsa, son derece komplekstir ve bir bütün oluÅŸturacak ÅŸekilde kavranmas? imkans?zd?r.

Even if what a jealous husband claims about his wife (that she sleeps around with other men) is all true, his jealousy is still pathological.

The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.

À ses yeux, les mauvaises habitudes, la manies et les névroses faisaient partie intégrante de la personnalité et servaient à rompre la monotonie de l'existence.

ese clínico ligado a la cotidianidad del sufrimiento».

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

HE ISN'T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE'S ANGRY BECAUSE HE'S ABUSIVE.

Abuse is not caused by bad relationship dynamics.

He often has difficulty conceiving of her as a human being. This tendency in abusers is known as objectification or depersonalization.

Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive.

Studies have found similar statistics regarding young men's belief that they have the right to force a female to have sex if they have spent a substantial amount of money on the evening's entertainment or if the woman started wanting sex but then changed her mind. These studies point to the importance of focusing on changing the entitled attitudes of abusers, rather than attempting to find something wrong in their individual psychology.

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle—though often quite pervasive—sense of superiority or contempt toward females.

abuse is a problem of values, not of psychology.