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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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – 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 pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know whats in it — they should, because they put it all in beforehand. – Saul Bellow

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

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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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