Quotes About Psychoanalysis

Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly dogmatic and paranoid stances regarding psychoanalysis.

psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas

psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will

second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly defined skill or trade, with no emphasis on artistic creativity. Teachers

Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have contributed to pushing the organizational structure into further reinforcing these defensive operations.

psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including

training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising control over a small social organization.

paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the "quality of life" in psychoanalytic education. Members

the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The "paranoiagenic" (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the

If your child is your only goal in life, it's not good for the child," Danièle says. "What happens to the child if he's the only hope for his mother? I think this is the opinion of all psychoanalysts.

Paul, ¿te acuerdas de que cuando estabas tan mal, antes de que comenzases el psicoanálisis, decías que quienes no plantan cara a su dolor se condenan a padecerlo sin fin?

Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.

When modern critics think they are demystifying literature, they are in fact being demystified by it. But since this necessarily occurs in the form of a crisis, they are blind to what takes place within themselves. What they call anthropology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, is nothing but literature reappearing like the hydra's head in the very spot where it had been suppressed. The human mind will go through amazing feats to avoid facing 'the nothingness of human matters'.

we believe that a number of the ideas discussed in this book—such as the social biofeedback theory of parental mirroring, the teleological and intentional stance, reflective function, the psychic equivalence and pretend modes of psychic reality, the alien self, mentalizing, affectivity, and, of course, affect regulation and mentalization—suggest a genuinely new direction for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.