Quotes About Associations

Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These

This new thought was a turning-point in the development of my psychology. It meant that I gradually gave up following associations that led far away from the text of a dream. I chose to concentrate rather on the associations to the dream itself, believing that the latter expressed something specific that the unconscious was trying to say.

It is of especial importance for me to know as much as possible about primitive psychology, mythology, archæology and comparative religion, for the reason that these fields afford me priceless analogies with which I can enrich the associations of my patients.

Every concept in our conscious mind, in short, has its own psychic associations. While such associations may vary in intensity (according to the relative importance of the concept to our whole personality, or according to the other ideas and even complexes to which it is associated in our unconscious), they are capable of changing the "normal" character of that concept. It may even become something quite different as it drifts below the level of consciousness.

I am thirty-three—the age of the good sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Soon, challenges against the Post's ownership of two television stations in Florida were filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The price of Post stock on the American Exchange dropped by almost 50 percent. Among the challengers - forming the organizations of 'citizens' who proposed to become the new FCC licensees - were several persons long associated with the President. -- Carl Bernsein, Bob Woodward

In a 1901 newspaper piece, peaky blinders were referred to as ''Arry' and the young women associated with them as ''Arriet'. These generic terms were used insultingly and could be equated to the derogatory use of 'Kevin' and 'Sharon' in modern society.

Show me your friends and I will show you your future

You underestimate the depths to which mysticism can bury rationality, Golan.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.

Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.

I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.

do you think there are any conservative librarians?" Rosenberg was laughing so hard

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