Psychoanalysis Quotes

When I came to Hollywood, I was summoned to Madonna 's apartment in New York City... and she was talking about All About Eve , and how it's one of her favorite films. Now I've seen it and I own itI bought one of the prints. It's about how youth is perceived and very little has changed in this youth obsessed cultureit's about the need for approval from others. There is so much going on in that movie. It requires some psychoanalysis. All About Eve is the only film I would remake. - Robert Luketic

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. - Sigmund Freud

This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it. - Zulima Farber

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. - Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father. - Sigmund Freud

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. - Walter Benjamin

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits. - Frederick Crews

Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection. - Karl Stern