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Quote by Susan Sontag
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology co

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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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years. – Thomas S. Szasz

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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. – Carl G. Jung

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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. – Carl Jung

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Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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