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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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Religion
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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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Time
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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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Mental Illness
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Sigmund Freud
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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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Psychiatry

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

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Psychiatry

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing – Joey Adams

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Psychiatry

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. – Karl Kraus

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Psychiatry

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