Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
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But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
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Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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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.
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
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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 what's in it -- they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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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.
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Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
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