Freud

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

—Thomas, D(onald) M(itchell)

Sigmund Freud has often stated Dreams and drives are all related. Zip, I am such a scholar!

—Rodgers, Richard and Hart, Lorenz

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

—Greer, Germaine

   A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and seehisideas beginto destroysex in America forever.

—Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)

I felt quite funny when Freud died. It was like having a continent disappear.

—Jarrell, Randall

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

—Wilson

Dal |¤ 's importance for the Surrealists at that time, and for art historians now, is that he found a way to put Freud on canvas.

—Schwartz, Sanford

   The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

—Dodd, Ken(neth)