It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying ...with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freudianism is much more nearly a religion than a science, inasmuch as the relation between analyst and patient has a great deal i...n common with that between priest and communicant at confessional, and such ideas as the Oedipus complex, the superego, the libido, and the id exert an effect upon the converted which is almost identical with what flows to the devout Christian from godhead, trinity, grace, and immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the ana...lyst in that moral activity which disentangles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than thirty-five years of psychoanalytic practice and comparative observation in Europe and America have given me the impress...ion that women in general have a lower opinion of their sex than men have of theirs. This difference cannot have its origin in biological divergences but must reflect the evaluation of social environment. No analyst who has listened with the third ear to women talk sincerely and unconventionally about their own sex will deny that their opinion of females is surprisingly low. It seems rather a prejudice than an opinion, and one attributes it to inferiority feelings taken over from men's conceit or to feelings of inadequacy born out of competition with men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a di...re mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Query: Whether the difference between a mere computer and a man of science be not, that the one computes on principles clearly con...ceived, and by rules evidently demonstrated, whereas the other doth not?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined... perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone u...nnoticed among liberal economists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »