Quotes by Psychoanalysts

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
C.G. Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
C.G. Jung
Every writer without exception is a masochist a sadist a peeping Tom an exhibitionist a narcissist an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.
Edmund Bergler
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.
Leo Rangell
Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel that is as a symbol of reward and recognition in the last analysis of acceptance by one's fellowmen.
Otto Rank
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?
Sigmund Freud
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.
Carl Jung
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
Karen Horney
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
Beata Rank
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.
Emma Jung
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
Sigmund Freud
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
John Lilly
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.
Emma Jung
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
Sigmund Freud
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure it will kill your efforts neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Charles Baudouin
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
John Lilly
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
Theodor Reik
In our civilization men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl G. Jung
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Sigmund Freud
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst