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

Other quotes by Sigmund Freud

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

Category:
Time
Read Quote

If a man has been his mothers undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Success
Read Quote

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Dissent
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Psychiatry
category

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings. – Laurence J. Peter

Category:
Psychiatry

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

Category:
Psychiatry

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. – Theodor Reik

Category:
Psychiatry

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. – Charles Horton Cooley

Category:
Psychiatry

Random Quotes

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. – Colleen McCullough

Category:
Imagination

I respect someones right to privacy and I want them to know it. – Terry Gross

Category:
respect

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman

Category:
Civilization

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone elses hands, but not you. – Jim Rohn

Category:
Future