Anybody who is anybody
Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift – by plastic surgery these days. It’s the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon. Eugenia Sheppard
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Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift – by plastic surgery these days. It’s the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon. Eugenia Sheppard
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another … Read more
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man’s condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad. Ernest Becker
Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all. … Read more
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it … Read more
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one’s subjective needs and expectations. Erich Fromm
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Erich Fromm
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. Erica Jong
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question? Erica Jong
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don’t tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it’s really the … Read more