Quotes About Psychology

It's hard to get to know your unconscious because … it's unconscious. However, thanks to projection, we can externalize our unconscious, and that then gives us the chance to interact with it and come to an understanding of it, and finally allow us to withdraw our projections and integrate them into our consciousness. We make sense of our unconscious via its projections, via what it latches onto in the world around us.

How do you fill the hole? Only by becoming Whole, which means becoming fully individuated, which means fully integrating all the contents of the unconscious, both personal and collective.

To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

You know what the scariest part is about people like him? Everything he's doing makes perfect sense in his own mind.

What do you think it's like, Father?" "What what's like?" "Being crazy. Mentally ill." "Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

I stared at him. I said, "Wait, really? Like there's an actual part of our brain that dictates how many people we can tolerate before we start acting like assholes?" "Congratulations, now you know the single reason why the world is the way it is.

Inappropriate laughter is the universal first sign of madness.

You know, I observed a man who masturbated until he bled. Did he want to do that?

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Virtue is never its own reward for the narcisisst

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

The vicar likes to talk about the great wall that exists in all of us, the end place at which each of us will say 'That is as far as I shall go.' He is very interested in how those walls are formed.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.