Quotes About Psychoanalysis

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

somos nosotros, los psicoanalistas, quienes en el silencio de la escucha imaginamos mentalmente, en forma de escena, el origen del sufrimiento experimentado por el neurótico".

El analista mira lo que el paciente desea".

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

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.)

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

Todo arte se caracteriza por un cierto modo de organización alrededor de ese vacío

El proceso analítico es cuando el yo decide si quiere aquello que desea.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.

From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

The destruction of art by sociology and psychoanalysis," he called it.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

psychoanalysis gets interesting when it shifts the focus from making us more intelligible to ourselves to helping us become more curious about how strange we really are. And so, I would argue, does art.

IN ONE OF his last psychoanalytic papers, D. W. Winnicott wrote: Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.

Freud is like God; you make it true.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.