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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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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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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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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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. – Samuel Goldwyn

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