Quote by Sigmund Freud
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. – Sigmund Freud

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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador – Sigmund Freud

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis wont do. Its an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought. – Sir Peter Medawar

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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. – Michel Foucault

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Half a psychiatrists patients see him because they are married — the other half because theyre not. – Arnold Glasgow

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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. – Gene Fowler

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