Quote by Sigmund Freud
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the su

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud

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Mind
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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is — a vice? – Friedrich Nietzsche, alluding to the proverb “Idleness is the beginning of all v

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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. – William Menninger

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Loneliness… is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. – Thomas Wolfe

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