#freud

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#back #been #freud #greatest #i

Love is the most pleasurable pain imaginable, and I have experienced more pain-pleasure than a German twin experiencing schadenfreude at the expense of his brother. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#german #love #pain #schadenfreude #twin

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#best #criticism #displaced #freud #kind

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. ↗

— William Goldman

#argue #certified #freudian #hostility #never

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream. ↗

— John Malkovich

#acting #actor #dream #dreams #else

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dwelling #edifice #foundation #freer #freudian

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. ↗

— John Irving

#background #damn #either #freud #him

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#aware #been #being #complex #disaster

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#happiness #suffering #experience