The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. – Carl G. Jung

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave