Quotes About Analysis

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.

We should not, therefore, try to get 'behind' the work, Barthes argues. There is nothing there. Instead, 'the space of writing is to be ranged over, not pierced' (and the metaphor suggests that the quest for intention generates a kind of violence). We should look at the text, Barthes urges, not through it. And his manifesto concludes with a ringing declaration: 'the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author'.

every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

Second, I told her that every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

the goal is to bring unconscious material forward into the conscious mind so that patients no longer act on their powerful but unconscious needs.

Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one's own code.

these games as a way to study model societies and social interactions.

How the more you looked, the more you gleaned. All the 'ways of seeing' that John Berger wrote about.

Many a committee meeting ends with "We need more data." Everybody nods, breathing a sigh of relief, happy that the decision has been deferred. A week or so later, when the data are in, the group is no further ahead. Everyone's time is wasted on another meeting, on waiting for even more data. The culprit is a negative error culture, in which everyone lacks the courage to make a decision for which they may be punished.

Always ask: What is the absolute risk increase?

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

if he had examined only one signal-box and knew nothing about the standardisation-methods of large corporations, his inference would be pitiably weak, for it would be a wide generalisation based on a single instance.

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

If it wriggles, it's biology. If it smells, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics.

The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.

Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of emotion passes. Though that emotion is ever changing as flowing water changes, it at least bears us along on a current that gives the illusion of continuity and permanence. But analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soul.

Beyond collecting comprehensive data about the online activities of hundreds of millions of people, X-KEYSCORE allows any NSA analyst to search the system's databases by email address, telephone number, or identifying attributes such as an IP address.

Ein Jahrhundert, das sich bloß auf die Analyse verlegt und sich vor der Synthese gleichsam fürchtet, ist nicht auf dem rechten Wege; denn nur beide zusammen, wie Aus- und Einatmen, machen das Leben der Wissenschaft. 1829, "Analyse und Synthese

It's Myers-Briggs . . . the MBTI, Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator.

Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.