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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
SIGMUND FREUD, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
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.
JACQUES DERRIDA, New York Times Magazine, Jan. 23, 1994
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. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.
SAUL BELLOW, The Dean's December
Where id is, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD, A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
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