#freud

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #future-of-an-illusion #religion #faith

I don't want to do anything Freudian. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#freudian #i #want

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#broadcast #christmas #christmas day #classic #day

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#behavior #concept #condemned #feel #freud

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. ↗

— Bill Condon

#catholic church #church #dangerous #freud #his

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

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

— Germaine Greer

#freud #had #mother #psychoanalysis

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#freud #inadequate #model #said #simply