psychoanalysis quotes

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

-Adorno,Theodor
  Negative Dialectics.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

-DeVries, Peter
  Forever Panting.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

-Ephron, Nora
  In The Guardian, 26  Jun.

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

-Greer, Germaine
  The Female Eunuch,'Soul:  The Psychological Sell'.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
  In Time, 30 Dec.

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)
TheWhite Hotel, author's note.

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